Saturn is visible east-southeast just after sunset, Venus sits low in the west, the new moon on 10 October gives the darkest skies, and the…
Nikon’s Small World In Motion contest accepts footage taken through powerful microscopes. The winning entry claims to show cilia moving in…
Only about 0.1% of people have highly superior autobiographical memory. A new study in Cortex documents a teenager with verified…
CT scans of a skull found in Hokkaido in 1995 identified Nipponopelta ezoensis, a nodosaurid between 93 and 100 million years old — and…
Researchers in Berlin rebuilt the conditions of the ocean beneath Enceladus in a lab and put deep-sea vent bacteria into it. They lived on…
A five-year study at Bangladesh Agricultural University, published with the University of Connecticut, found the real figure is 27% below…
The longest engineering project in human history. It made crops that cannot survive without us — and one fruit so uniform a single fungus…
Polypropylene bags released about 1.2 billion particles per millilitre, nylon-6 8.18 million, and cellulose 135 million. Intestinal cells…
A joke prize relocating is a small story. What makes it worth reading is why odd-sounding research keeps turning out to matter, and what…
Quantum Echoes ran about 13,000 times faster than the best known classical simulation. The claim that matters is not the speed but that a…
A 2015 scan showed the bubble forms as the sound happens, not when it collapses. The arthritis fear does not survive the evidence. One…
France discharges about 153 kg of I-129 into the sea each year. The mass is large precisely because the half-life is long — and that is the…
