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Changes in Earth’s orbit that favored hotter conditions may have helped trigger a rapid global warming event 56 million years…
Nature uses 20 canonical amino acids as building blocks to make proteins, combining their sequences to create complex molecules that…
One of the most perplexing aspects of quantum mechanics is that tiny subatomic particles don’t seem to “choose” a state…
Contour plot of function F(sr,si) [defined in (55)]. The point at which F=0 represents the first physical isovector scalar meson…
Illustration of how preoptic neurons drive hypothermia and cold defense, together with an example of the potential application in spaceflight.…
After a two-year delay, the COP15 summit will convene in Montreal to hammer out an agreement to address the biodiversity…
Every year the remains of bizarre ocean creatures wash ashore on beaches across the globe, revealing clues about the lives…
Inadequate pollination has led to a 3-5% loss of fruit, vegetable, and nut production and an estimated 427,000 excess deaths…
It is well-known exercise has many benefits, but new Edith Cowan University (ECU) research has revealed just how critically important…
The developments at COP27 resulted in a historic agreement to set up a loss and damage fund, but voices from…
The idea that humans are facing a global extinction of experience of nature is popular, but there is poor empirical…
The distribution of calving outcomes, including heifer calvings. Credit: Preventive Veterinary Medicine (2022). DOI: 10.1016/j.prevetmed.2022.105812 A small percentage of cows…
One of the two “compass proteins” (POLAR, in pink) orients the future cell division. In gray are cell outlines on…
It was around 2:30 on a Saturday afternoon this May, according to court documents, when Payton Gendron gunned down 32-year-old…
Testing the strip. Credit: UPV A team from the Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV), the Universitat de València (UV), and…
From concrete dinosaurs to human evolution, exquisite plants to space travel, we pick the best non-fiction to give to those…
A once-promising hint of new physics from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world’s largest particle accelerator, has melted away,…
A rare lunar occultation of Mars will be visible from parts of the world this month. Abigail Beall explains how…
A life-changing visit to a research project in Uganda on banded mongooses has shown me how international collaboration, and travel,…
Reconnecting current sheets and magnetic flux ropes in MHD turbulence. (A) Volume rendering of the current density ∣J∣ in the…
These photographs are of JETT3 and D-RATS, two Earth-based missions designed to replicate aspects of future moon landings and help…
After an intermittent fasting diet intervention, patients achieved complete diabetes remission, defined as an HbA1c (average blood sugar) level of…
EPISODE TRANSCRIPT Joel Bervell: You have the freedom to choose another doctor if you feel like you’re not being heard.…
Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is the fifth leading cause of death in adults over 65 years old. While many potential treatments…
Schematic view of sub-barrier and continuum electron dynamics in strong-field ionization (a) and principles of chiral attoclock (b) and subcycle…
[]Archaeologists in Egypt have unearthed stunning gold jewelry, including a ring depicting the “god of fun,” in a burial that’s…
Stone projectile points discovered buried inside and outside of pit features at the Cooper’s Ferry site, Area B. Credit: Loren…
A routine dentist’s tool may soon help with more than just oral health. A new study has found that dental…
A year of incredible science news was complemented with wide-ranging commentary at Scientific American. Our opinion section featured some of…