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Structures made out of building blocks can shift their shape and autonomously self-organize to a new configuration. The physicists Saeed…
Reproductive health issues came to political center stage in 2022 with the Supreme Court’s Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization…
In a global study, researchers have identified that most reservoirs of rodent-borne diseases tend to live exclusively or occasionally in…
A star orbiting a supermassive black hole at the centre of a distant galaxy was ripped apart in a tidal…
Living waters—from rivers, to ancient aquifers to wetlands—are sacred and alive. Credit: Shutterstock When the British colonized Australia they assumed…
A new study has found that young Brits would be willing to change to a more sustainable diet, but a…
Credit: Shutterstock Greater conservation efforts are needed to protect Antarctic ecosystems, and the populations of up to 97% of land-based…
Technicians, engineers, postdocs, and scientists from Japan, Taiwan, and the U.S. have built the INTT detector, which consists of four…
Many Americans think of gout as a disease from a bygone era, akin to rickets or scurvy. The condition commonly…
The first demonstration of nuclear fusion; the deepest image of the universe ever captured; intentional asteroid diversions and the discovery…
Marine fishes live in highly saline environments with ionic concentrations that are vastly different from their blood plasma. Seawater contains…
Researchers have characterised prostate cancer cell dynamics at a single-cell resolution across the timespan of the disease — from its…
By Christa Lesté-Lasserre Artist’s reconstruction of Janavis finalidens, a very large marine bird from the late Cretaceous. In the background…
Researchers have used Google’s Sycamore quantum computer to simulate a simplified wormhole for the first time, and sent a piece…
Black holes are scary beasts — objects so massive that not even light can escape their clutches. In 2022, we learned…
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is squeezing global oil supplies and inflation is jacking up prices at the pumps. Although petrol…
Credit: University of Tübingen Humans have been using bear skins to protect themselves from cold weather for at least 300,000…
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech In a recent study published in The Planetary Science Journal, a pair of researchers led by The Carl…
[]The son and grandson of men who had forged the Achaemenid Empire, Xerxes I was born to rule in Ancient…
Cat king, Germany, circa 1450. Credit: Scheibler’sches Wappenbuch – BSB Cod.icon. 312c Cats had a bad reputation in the middle…
Antibiotic resistance, when infection-causing bacteria evolve so they are no longer affected by typical antibiotics, is a global concern. New…
Several species of ant have been observed producing a liquid while in a pupal stage that is consumed by ant…
A new computational analysis by theorists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory and Wayne State University supports…
The Carina star-forming region imaged by the JWST. Credit: NASA It is no exaggeration to say the James Webb Space…
Our built environment—from houses to offices, schools and shops—is not environmentally benign. Buildings and the construction industry are, in fact,…
The holiday season is upon us again. With it, many of us brace for dinner-table debates. In an era of…
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…