An international group of scientists has been studying a group of microorganisms called Asgard archaea for several years. Their research indicates that these distinct organisms are the origin of all complex life forms that populate our world today. The first life forms that evolved on Earth were
German semiconductor maker Infineon Technologies AG announced that it’s producing a printed circuit board (PCB) that dissolves in water.
The tick-borne disease has not caused any deaths, health officials say, but people with alpha-gal syndrome have described it as bewildering and terrifying.
The allergy, called alpha-gal syndrome, came to light a little over a decade ago.
Annually, between July 17 and August 24, the Perseid meteor shower puts on one of the brightest cosmic events of the year.
An energy company called Fervo says it has achieved a breakthrough in geothermal technology.
To celebrate Disability Pride Month, Music: Not Impossible brought vibrating haptic suits to a Lincoln Center dance party.
Scent dogs may represent a cheaper, faster and more effective way to detect COVID-19, and could be a key tool in future pandemics, a new review of recent research suggests. The review, published in the Journal of Osteopathic Medicine, found that scent dogs are as effective, or even more effective, than conventional COVID-19...
The antibody treatment donanemab slows clinical decline by around a third, a large trial confirms.
Whales, bats and birds sound different depending on where they live. So do elk, according to new research.
Now, in a paper published today in Nature Communications, Nanglu and his co-authors report that the exquisitely-preserved 500-million-year-old fossil is a dead ringer for some tunicates today, with two siphons to filter organic particles from the water and complex musculature controlling the siphons. “It looks like a tunicate...
Researchers find physically active short sleepers in their 50s and 60s suffer cognitive decline as fast as those who do less exercise
Decarbonising steel production is essential if we are to cut global greenhouse gas emissions, but this energy-intensive process has been hard to clean up - until now
Researchers have demonstrated a new material for single-molecule electronic switches, which can effectively vary current at the nanoscale in response to external stimuli....
A cute mathematical trick can "rescale" the Universe so that it isn't actually expanding. But can that "trick" survive all our cosmic tests?
Humans might have been wearing phallic ornaments thousands of years before the Romans and Greeks did the same for good luck.
Critical insights into why airborne viruses lose their infectivity have been uncovered by scientists at the University of Bristol. The findings, published in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface today, reveal how cleaner air kills the virus significantly quicker and why opening a window may be more important than...
An amazing video on a fluid dynamics experiment that produces a confined turbulent region in sustained fluid flow.
Australian cancer expert fights back and survives aggressive brain tumour with his own experimental treatment, offering hope for future patients.
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), the most sophisticated space observatory created by humans
Explore the groundbreaking cloning efforts reshaping endangered species conservation, as two more black-footed ferrets join the ranks of genetically i
The tool, unearthed in Central Europe, suggests that locals made devices for stringing together sturdy cords over 35,000 years ago, researchers say.
A newly discovered trade-off in the way time-keeping devices operate on a fundamental level could set a hard limit on the performance of large-scale quantum computers, according to researchers from the Vienna University of Technology.
Researchers say that the model behind the chatbot fabricated a convincing bogus database, but a forensic examination shows it doesn’t pass for authentic.
