RE SCIENCE
Ice is disappearing more quickly on Antarctica’s Pine Island and Thwaites glaciers than at any time in the last few thousand years. Scientists came to this conclusion after reviewing ancient …
Uplifting Antarctic shores point to accelerating loss of glaciers Read MoreHigher and higher still, the cotton bollworm moth caterpillar climbs, its tiny body ceaselessly scaling leaf after leaf. Reaching the top of a plant, it will die, facilitating the spread …
A virus called HearNPV turns caterpillars into doomed zombies Read MoreA quirky material that behaves like a mishmash of liquid and solid could be hidden deep in the Earth. Computer simulations described in two studies suggest that the material in …
Weird ‘superionic’ matter could make up Earth’s inner core Read MoreResearchers have finally deciphered a complete human genetic instruction book from cover to cover. The completion of the human genome has been announced a couple of times in the past, …
We finally have a fully complete human genome Read MoreHunter-gatherers who lived more than 2,000 years ago near the top of the world appear to have run ironworking operations as advanced as those of farming societies far to the …
Arctic hunter-gatherers were advanced ironworkers more than 2,000 years ago Read MoreSome bacteria can trigger unexploded viral grenades in neighboring bacteria’s DNA. Certain Escherichia coli bacteria, including some that live in human intestines, make a chemical called colibactin. That chemical awakens …
Some E. coli set off viral grenades inside nearby bacteria Read MoreThe continuing search for life beyond Earth is driving many of the priorities for what’s next when it comes to US planetary exploration. In a new report that could shape …
US planetary scientists want to explore Uranus and Enceladus next Read MoreAfter two years of successfully evading getting COVID-19 – including a few brushes with close contacts, a couple of are-they-just-colds? scares and lots of negative tests – I recently tested …
What experts told me to do after my positive COVID-19 at-home test Read MoreDeep in the human brain, a very specific kind of cell dies during Parkinson’s disease. For the first time, researchers have sorted large numbers of human brain cells into substantia …
A very specific kind of brain cell dies in people with Parkinson’s Read MoreThat’s one small stem for a plant, one giant leap for plant science. In a tiny, lab-grown garden, the first seeds ever sown in lunar dirt have sprouted. This small …
These are the first plants grown in moon dirt Read More