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Unlocking the secrets of magnetic materials requires the right illumination. Magnetic x-ray circular dichroism makes it possible to decode magnetic…
Chemotherapy treatments produce strong side effects. A new agent that accumulates in the tumour tissue and is activated there by…
Open your favorite social media platform and note how many friends or followers you have. Specifically, note the first digit…
Feeling like we have a degree of control makes us tolerate pain better. In the case of fibromyalgia, however, this…
This “electroadhesion” technique can stick all matter of materials together without any adhesives or glues. Credit: American Chemical Society If…
Bumblebees spread behaviour through social learningRichard Becker / Alamy Stock Photo Bumblebees can teach each other how to solve a…
Since the outbreak of warfare in Ukraine, intelligence reporting from publicly available information, open-source intelligence (OSINT), has made a groundbreaking…
Researchers at Simon Fraser University are studying the genes of superbugs to aid the development of new and effective treatments…
German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock, center, attends the weekly cabinet meeting of the German government at the chancellery in Berlin,…
Graphical abstract. Credit: Molecular Systems Biology (2023). DOI: 10.15252/msb.202211320 It’s the quiet bacteria that you’ve got to watch out for,…
Getting vaccinated against covid-19 during pregnancy can reduce your newborn’s risk of infectionGary Coronado/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images Covid-19…
Worms can entangle themselves into a single, giant knot, only to quickly unravel themselves from the tightly wound mess within…
Astronomers have detected one of the longest, brightest and most energetic cosmic objects ever observed — and they’ve named it…
The river Wharfe in Ilkley was England’s first bathing riverPaul Ellis/AFP via Getty Images There are close to 1500 rivers in the…
Normal red blood cells are round, but those affected by sickle cell are crescent shapedScience Photo Library/Getty Images Millions of…
CLIMATEWIRE | A record-breaking heat wave in the western Mediterranean last month would have been nearly impossible without the influence of…
Pierced deer tooth discovered from Denisova Cave in southern Siberia that yielded ancient human DNA. Credit: Max Planck Institute for…
Natural disasters can devastate a region, abruptly killing the species that form an ecosystem’s structure. But how this transpires can…
Using SLAC’s X-ray laser, researchers have finally seen the process by which nature creates the oxygen we breathe. Credit: Greg…
SUBSCRIBE: Apple | Spotify This is Episode Four of a 4-Part “Fascination” on vernal pools. You can listen to Episode One here, Episode…
The scientists designed a special cell in order to observe the transport of lithium-ions between the anode and the cathode…
Astronomers using the Gemini South telescope in Chile, operated by NSF’s NOIRLab, have observed the first compelling evidence of a…
Protein plaques in the brain may be caused by failing mitochondriaSebastian Kaulitzki/Alamy IF YOU own a car, you will have noticed…
The mystery of an “impossible” ancient Egyptian sculpture depicting two individuals, one of them a pharaoh, may now be solved,…
Scientists at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital revealed that human ribosomes decode messenger RNA (mRNA) 10 times slower than bacterial…
Breast milk can be a source of bacteria that make up a baby’s microbiomeNastyaofly/Shutterstock Babies who missed out on their…
About 12% of the total global energy demand comes from heating and cooling homes and businesses. A new study suggests…
The East Gippsland fires in Victoria, Australia, in January 2020JASON EDWARDS/POOL/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock Smoke from bushfires that raged across south-eastern Australia in…
The World Health Organization (WHO) announced Friday that COVID-19 is no longer a public health emergency of international concern, or…