May 16, 2023 13:20 pm UTC| Science
Imagine using your cellphone to control the activity of your own cells to treat injuries and disease. It sounds like something from the imagination of an overly optimistic science fiction writer. But this may one day be a...
May 16, 2023 13:18 pm UTC| Science
Human DNA can be sequenced from small amounts of water, sand and air in the environment to potentially extract identifiable information like genetic lineage, gender, and health risks, according to our new...
Theory of everything: how progress in physics depends on asking the right questions
May 16, 2023 13:17 pm UTC| Science
When I began my undergraduate physics degree (around 20 years ago), What is the theory of everything? was a question that I heard often. It was used as a label for how theoretical physicists were trying to develop a deeper...
May 11, 2023 16:01 pm UTC| Science
Most diamonds are formed deep inside Earth and brought close to the surface in small yet powerful volcanic eruptions of a kind of rock called kimberlite. Our supercomputer modelling, published in Nature Geoscience,...
What is hydrogen, and can it really become a climate solution?
May 11, 2023 16:00 pm UTC| Science
Hydrogen, or H₂, is getting a lot of attention lately as governments in the U.S., Canada and Europe push to cut their greenhouse gas emissions. But what exactly is H₂, and is it really a clean power source? I...
The Euclid spacecraft will transform how we view the 'dark universe'
May 08, 2023 05:23 am UTC| Science
The European Space Agencys (ESA) Euclid satellite completed the first part of its long journey into space on May 1 2023, when it arrived in Florida on a boat from Italy. It is scheduled to lift off on a Falcon 9 rocket,...
May 05, 2023 12:30 pm UTC| Science
Microorganisms in particular bacteria are skillful chemists that can produce an impressive diversity of chemical compounds known as natural products. These metabolites provide the microbes major evolutionary advantages,...
Johannesburg in a time of darkness: Ivan Vladislavić’s new memoir reminds us of the city’s fragility
Economist Chris Richardson on an ‘ugly’ inflation result and the coming budget
Biden administration tells employers to stop shackling workers with ‘noncompete agreements’
IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects