Inside the world of tiny phytoplankton – microscopic algae that provide most of our oxygen
Apr 30, 2021 07:50 am UTC| Science
Phytoplankton are microscopic algae living throughout the oceans surface waters. They cant swim and are at the mercy of the currents and tides. Despite their small size, phytoplankton enable life in the oceans and...
First human-monkey embryos created – a small step towards a huge ethical problem
Apr 23, 2021 12:07 pm UTC| Science Insights & Views
Scientists have created the worlds first monkey embryos containing human cells in an attempt to investigate how the two types of cell develop alongside each other. The embryos, which were derived from a macaque and then...
Lab–grown embryos and human–monkey hybrids: Medical marvels or ethical missteps?
Apr 23, 2021 11:52 am UTC| Science
In Aldous Huxleys 1932 novel Brave New World, people arent born from a mothers womb. Instead, embryos are grown in artificial wombs until they are brought into the world, a process called ectogenesis. In the novel,...
Antimatter: scientists find way to trap elusive material by blasting it with lasers
Apr 23, 2021 11:46 am UTC| Science
Antimatter is believed to play a huge part in the story of our universe. Its the counterpart to matter: identical in every way with protons, neutrons and electrons but with an opposite electric charge. According to our...
Shifting toward 'open peer review'
Apr 22, 2021 05:42 am UTC| Science
Twenty years ago, it was difficult to find information about local restaurants, except from the restaurants themselves. Now, thanks to the Internet, independent evaluations are easy to find. Its past time we make that the...
NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter flight on Mars opens up new frontiers in space exploration
Apr 22, 2021 05:41 am UTC| Science
History has been made on Mars: NASAs Ingenuity helicopter just achieved the first powered and controlled flight on another planet. Ingenuity is a small, lightweight, drone-like helicopter that was carried on the...
How we found hints of new particles or forces of nature – and why it could change physics
Apr 11, 2021 12:32 pm UTC| Science
Seven years ago, a huge magnet was transported over 3,200 miles (5,150km) across land and sea, in the hope of studying a subatomic particle called a muon. Muons are closely related to electrons, which orbit every atom...
Electricity from farm waste: how biogas could help Malawians with no power
What the Supreme Court is doing right in considering Trump’s immunity case
US election: why it’s not the protesters’ votes that the Democrats should worry about
IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects