Science
Scientific discoveries and research
Where are Europe's oldest people living? What geography tells us about a fragmenting continent
For over a century and a half, life expectancy has steadily increased in the wealthiest countries. Spectacular climbs in longevity have been noted in the 20th c...
Hudson Valley initiative puts food sovereignty into practice
A study by researchers from the CUNY Urban Food Policy Institute gauges how an initiative in New York's Hudson Valley is helping farmers and community organizat...
Hard to recycle packaging? This glue could let plastics peel apart on cue
Newcastle University engineers are at the forefront of adhesive technology that promises to change how we recycle. They have developed a reversible glue that st...
Friendly bacteria can unlock hidden metabolic pathways in plant cell cultures
Plants are a rich and renewable source of compounds used in medicines, food ingredients, and cosmetics. Since growing an entire plant just to extract a few spec...
Simulations and supercomputing calculate one million cislunar orbits
Satellites and spacecraft in the vast region between Earth and the moon and just beyond—called cislunar space—are crucial for space exploration, scientific adva...
Olives have been essential to life in Italy for at least 6,000 years—far longer than we thought
How far back does the rich history of Italian olives and oil stretch? My new research, published in the American Journal of Archaeology, synthesizing and reeval...
How to ensure affordable, safe and culturally grounded housing for Indigenous older adults
A good home, or Minosin Kikiwa in Cree, is the foundation of dignity in later life, according to the Indigenous seniors who spoke to us. Yet "every year the ren...
Zambia's farmers are working in dangerous heat: How they can protect themselves
Farming is central to life in Zambia, with about 60% of the country's labor force relying on rain-fed agriculture for their livelihood or income. Seasonal rains...
'Inoculation' helps people spot political deepfakes, study finds
Informing people about political deepfakes through text-based information and interactive games both improve people's ability to spot AI-generated video and aud...
Scientists use RNA nanotechnology to program living cells, opening a new path for cancer cure
Scientists at Rutgers University–Newark have developed a first-of-its-kind RNA-based nanotechnology that assembles itself inside living human cells and can be p...
Grazing and digging put some herbivores at greater risk from toxic elements in soil: New research
If you've watched a giraffe browsing in the tree canopy, a white rhino meandering across open grassland, or a warthog shuffling around on its knees in South Afr...
Researchers uncover a one-hour 'crown' checkpoint that enables malaria reproduction
A new study has uncovered a hidden step that helps the deadliest malaria parasite survive and multiply inside the human body. Researchers studying Plasmodium fa...