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US-German trio wins medicine Nobel for work on optogenetics
The Nobel Prize in medicine was awarded Monday to U.S. psychiatrist and neurologist Karl Deisseroth and his German colleagues Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel for...
Electrical technique could help identify signs of life in space
The truth is out there—but identifying signs of life in space involves an intense search for biosignatures within our solar system and beyond. However, developi...
Sunken Silk Road city reveals Central Asia's lost history
The sun had barely risen, but diving volunteer Elizaveta Bodrova was already raring to plunge into the cold waters of Lake Issyk-Kul, where the ruins of a once-...
Modern forensics reveals human sacrifice in ancient Egypt's royal burials
Over 500 years before the building of the Great Pyramid in Egypt, First Dynasty kings were buried in a tomb surrounded by many burials of household officials an...
Nature-strip gardens are a paradise for pollinators in your street
In front of most Australian houses, between the sidewalk and the road, runs a strip of land most people never really think about. In Australia, it's called the...
Nanoneedle arrays map RNA in fresh tissue without sequencing or amplification
Recently, spatial omics has become a powerful tool, enabling researchers to see not only what molecules are present in a tissue, but also where they are located...
Informal businesses belong in entrepreneurial ecosystems, review argues
A systematic review of informal businesses published in the International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business argues that they should be treated as p...
Gamma-ray search sets new limits on dark matter annihilation in the inner Milky Way
Dark matter could be a type of matter in the universe that does not emit, absorb or reflect detectable light and appears to interact very weakly with regular ma...
Taste shapes support for climate-friendly school meals
Students in a new study were neither clearly positive nor negative about more climate-friendly school meals. Whether the food tasted good, was filling and felt...
One giant clam contains a month‑by‑month diary of the Great Barrier Reef's climate 200 years ago
When you swim through the azure waters of the Great Barrier Reef, there is one creature on the seafloor that's almost impossible to miss: the giant clam. Its hu...
Hidden X-ray phase revealed in likely neutron star merger
An international team of astronomers, including researchers from the Department of Physics and the Hong Kong Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics (HKIAA) at...
Heat-trapping gas once frozen in Arctic ground is slowly leaking and warming the planet
As Ted Schuur stepped along the edges of Smith Lake, a bubble surfaced from the muck underfoot. And then another. They're bubbles of methane, a potent heat-trap...