Crowd-sourced science sheds light on how new species form across space and time
Aug 25, 2023 07:58 am UTC| Science
Imagine a jungle. Its probably a lush forest, filled with different bird songs and the hum of thousands of different kinds of insects. Now imagine a tundra: barren, windswept terrain with relatively few kinds of plants or...
Aug 24, 2023 07:17 am UTC| Science
The worlds of pop culture and advanced imaging technology intersected recently when Kim Kardashian promoted a commercial whole-body magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) service on social media as a tool to detect cancer and...
New research into genetic mutations may pave the way for more effective gene therapies
Aug 24, 2023 07:17 am UTC| Science
Consider a living cell, which can have thousands of genes. Now think of these genes as dials that can be tweaked to change how the cell grows in a given environment. Tweaking a gene can either increase or decrease growth,...
Russia has declared a new space race, hoping to join forces with China. Here's why that's unlikely
Aug 24, 2023 07:16 am UTC| Science
This week, the Russian space agency Roscosmos had hoped to return to the Moon after an absence of nearly 50 years. Instead, on Saturday it lost control of its Luna-25 lander. The agency explained the spacecraft switched to...
Scientists find the last remnants of the human genome that were missing in the Y chromosome
Aug 24, 2023 07:15 am UTC| Science
More than 20 years ago, the human genome was first sequenced. While the first version was full of holes representing missing DNA sequences, the genome has been gradually improved in successive rounds. Each has increased...
Aug 22, 2023 04:25 am UTC| Science
The past few weeks have seen a huge surge of interest among scientists and the public in a material called LK-99 after it was claimed to be a superconductor at room temperature and ambient pressure. LK-99 garnered...
Aug 22, 2023 04:21 am UTC| Science
When soaring temperatures, extreme weather and catastrophic wildfires hit the headlines, people start asking for quick fixes to climate change. The U.S. government just announced the first awards from a US$3.5 billion fund...
South Africa’s plan to move away from coal: 8 steps to make it succeed
Germany lowers voting age to 16 for the European elections
IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects