Science
Scientific discoveries and research
Capturing the moment of organelle handoff inside living cells
For the first time, researchers have directly visualized how newly formed cellular organelles leave the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) and transition onto microtubu...
Webb pushes boundaries of observable universe closer to Big Bang
The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope has topped itself once again, delivering on its promise to push the boundaries of the observable universe closer to...
It's one storm after another for much of the US, but the next one's path is uncertain
Winter's brutal grip on the U.S. East is not letting up, with coming days bringing subfreezing temperatures that will plunge deep into what had been a toasty Fl...
Antitrust crackdowns may reduce corporate know-how
Interlocking directorates—the practice of the same director sitting on the boards of competing companies—have long been identified with backroom deals and corpo...
The magnetic 'birdsong' of the smallest planet
BepiColombo is slowly uncovering more and more fun facts about Mercury as it continues its preliminary mission. One of the more interesting things found so far...
Extracellular vesicles manage to slip gene edits into Pneumocystis fungi
Pneumocystis is an unwieldy genus of fungal pathogens that cause severe pneumonia, particularly in immunocompromised people like those with HIV/AIDs or who have...
Which countries are paying the highest price for particulate air pollution?
Polluted air causes an estimated 7 million deaths worldwide each year, according to the World Health Organization. Much of the mortality comes from PM2.5, parti...
Lake Anna analysis finds multiple pollution sources, with mines a key contributor
A new University of Virginia study led by environmental scientist Justin Richardson shows that phosphorus pollution driving algae blooms in Virginia's Lake Anna...
NASA telescopes spot surprisingly mature cluster in the early universe
Astronomers at The University of Manchester have played a leading role in the discovery of a new cosmic object that is much larger than anything astronomers hav...
Warming weakens natural enemies of insects, new research shows
A warming climate is disrupting the delicate balance of nature. An international team of scientists led by entomologists from the Biology Center of the Czech Ac...
Superfluids are supposed to flow indefinitely. Physicists just watched one stop moving
Ordinary matter, when cooled, transitions from a gas into a liquid. Cool it further still, and it freezes into a solid. Quantum matter, however, can behave very...
Mineral dust accelerates Greenland ice sheet melt by promoting algae growth
Large-scale melting of the Greenland Ice Sheet is irreversible and happening at a rapid rate, and now a new international study is the first to understand why....