Why spiders deserve our respect, not fear or disgust
I had not thought much about spiders until I read Maria Tatar’s Arachnomania; now I can think of…
When Mariner 4 sent back the first close-up of Mars in 1965, the printer was too slow for the engineers waiting on it, so they pinned the raw numbers to a wall and coloured them in with pastels bought from an art shop down the road
The first close-up photograph of another planet was hand-drawn with art pastels on strips of ticker tape. This…
Earth’s Hidden Thermostat Has Regulated Climate for 60 Million Years
For tens of millions of years, Earth’s climate may have been stabilized by a hidden feedback linking sea…
Two and a half kilometres beneath the Antarctic ice, a cubic kilometre of frozen water has been wired with 5,160 light sensors, turning the South Pole itself into a telescope that looks down through the entire planet to catch particles arriving from the other side of the sky
At the South Pole, the sky is not the only direction from which astronomy can be done. Buried…
KAIST Unveils Molecular Switch for Cancer Therapy
Cells carry their own growth switches. When enough nutrients—amino acids in particular—are available, cells flip this switch on…
James Webb Telescope Discovers Hidden Giant Planet in Famous Star System
This artist’s concept shows the Beta Pictoris system with the discovered giant exoplanet Beta Pictoris d at the…
After 60 years, scientists uncover metformin’s hidden brain effects
Metformin has been the standard treatment for type 2 diabetes for more than six decades, yet scientists have…
In July 2028 NASA launches a car-sized, 1,000-pound nuclear drone toward Saturn’s moon Titan, a six-year, $3.35 billion trip to a world where the air is four times denser than Earth’s, gravity is one-seventh as strong, and flying is the easy part.
The upcoming Dragonfly mission is unlike any planetary mission NASA has ever attempted. Instead of another slow-moving rover,…
Nearly 300 humpback whales were seen in a rare ‘supergroup’ that shows their recovery
CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — A South African couple found themselves in a rare situation when they…
Chinese Scientists Develop ContactSeek AI Framework Based on AlphaFold3 Contact Probability: A New Precision Paradigm for Gene Editing Tool Design Published in Nature – Pandaily
Chinese Scientists Develop ContactSeek AI Framework Based on AlphaFold3 Contact Probability: A New Precision Paradigm for Gene Editing…
New enzyme removes years of aging from skin and other human tissue
Scientists engineered CMLase, an enzyme that removes CML, a form of age-related protein damage linked to tissue stiffness…
Total solar eclipse meets Perseid peak on August 12, 2026
For about two minutes on the afternoon of Wednesday, August 12, the Moon’s shadow will sweep across the…