US: Scientists find Higgs mode in a semiconductor for the first time
Scientists at the Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) in the US found an elusive type of vibration, called the…
Whole-genome duplication shaped cell-type evolution in the vertebrate brain
Vertebrate scRNA and snRNA atlas collection, filtering and preprocessing Cell atlases were retrieved from previous publications2,3,4,5. Low-quality cells…
Watch Duty Is Adding Flood Alerts to Its Wildfire App
Watch Duty, the wildfire alert app, is introducing flood alerts to its popular disaster-awareness service. This is the…
Japan’s ‘crawling’ moon robot LEV-2 passed its historic first lunar mission with flying colors
When the Japanese Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM) spacecraft, nicknamed the “Moon Sniper,” face-planted onto the lunar…
A Strange ‘Cold Blob’ in The Atlantic Signals We’re Almost at a Tipping Point : ScienceAlert
There’s a strange anomaly in the North Atlantic, just south of Greenland: A ‘cold blob’ of ocean and…
Cleaner air is making marine clouds about 2.8% less reflective per decade over the North Atlantic and Northeast Pacific, and scientists say that “clean-air paradox” is letting more sunlight hit the water and helping oceans warm faster than forecasts expected
Cleaner air has brought enormous public health benefits, but a new climate study points to a strange side…
ESA Awards Initial €700M Contract for Next-Gen Sentinel-1 Satellites
Credit: ESA / ATG Medialab The European Space Agency has awarded Thales Alenia Space in Italy a contract…
Structural basis for chaperone-guided assembly of RNA-induced silencing complex
Iwasaki, S. et al. Hsc70/Hsp90 chaperone machinery mediates ATP-dependent RISC loading of small RNA duplexes. Mol. Cell 39,…
Life after death: From burned trees to bleached corals, how dead organisms live on as the building blocks of new life
People’s knee-jerk reaction to seeing death in nature is often not positive. The burn scar left by wildfire…
Train Ride to NASA Kennedy for Artemis III Booster Segments
The final booster motor segments for NASA’s SLS (Space Launch System) rocket that will help propel Artemis III…
Humans prefer to walk anticlockwise, scientists find – but reason is unclear | Science
“I’m not an ambi-turner,” laments Derek Zoolander in the eponymous noughties satire about the world’s hottest male model…
Record winter temperatures in Antarctic raise fears over speed of climate breakdown | Polar regions
Temperatures in the Antarctic climbed above 15C this month, shattering the previous winter heat record for the usually…