Science
Scientific discoveries and research
The raccoon raiding your garbage bin might just be solving a puzzle—for the fun of it
Ever woken up to find that a crafty raccoon has overturned your garbage bin and spread the discarded contents of your life across the street? Raccoons—sometimes...
Ancient DNA finds 15,800-year-old dogs in Anatolia, buried like humans
Evidence of some of the earliest dogs has been identified at two University of Liverpool/British Institute at Ankara archaeological excavation projects in centr...
Chemists harness electricity to create biomass-based building blocks
Chemists at Wageningen University & Research (WUR) and Utrecht University have developed a new method to produce a promising chemical building block from biomas...
Bacteria invent another way to turn on genes
In their landmark 1961 paper on the lac operon, Nobel laureates François Jacob and Jacques Monod speculated that RNA might control gene activity in bacteria thr...
Giant craters may reveal if Psyche is a lost planetary core
When we think of asteroids, we almost immediately think of giant rocks bouncing around like the iconic chase scene in "The Empire Strikes Back," and we often he...
College students are writing with AI, but a pilot study finds they're not simply letting it write for them
Debates about generative AI in higher education have been informed by studies of completed student papers, or self-reported survey data. Research shows that art...
Alaska analysis shows continued loss of Arctic landfast sea ice
Sea ice is sticking to Alaska's northern coast for less time each year, according to 27 years of data analyzed by University of Alaska Fairbanks scientists. Suc...
Saturday Citations: Birthday cetaceans; quantifying children's play experiences; placebos still effective
This week, we learned that across the animal kingdom, sperm cells have a short shelf life. A study implicated autoantibodies in the development of long COVID. A...
New study finds work-based learning key to closing the cybersecurity skills gap
As the demand for cybersecurity professionals continues to rise, new research from the University of South Florida identified a growing interest among higher ed...
Liquids can fracture like solids—researchers discover the breaking point
In a development that could shift our basic understanding of fluid mechanics, researchers from Drexel University have reported that, given the right circumstanc...
Artemis II astronauts arrive at Florida launch site for first moon trip in 53 years
The astronauts set to become the first lunar visitors in more than half a century arrived at their launch site Friday, joining the towering rocket that stands p...
Why use living cells? Researchers are making chemicals with enzymes alone
Today's nearly $70 billion U.S. biofuels economy is powered by two technology toolboxes. Biochemical technologies—used to produce around 17 billion gallons of e...