Science
Scientific discoveries and research
The hydrogen atom: The raw material of the universe barely exists on Earth—now we've made it in a flask
What do you see when you look up at the night sky? While everyone may have a different answer, the truth is that almost everything out there is hydrogen. The fi...
Discovering Vasari beyond the page
Most students of Renaissance art encounter Giorgio Vasari through a book. His Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, first published i...
Extracellular vesicle discovery may shed light on how cancer spreads
A team from the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Center (The Institute) have discovered a new type of extracellular vesicle released by migrat...
Slow-motion electron camera reveals light-driven quantum jumps in graphene
Using a new slow-motion electron camera, physicists from Regensburg, Marburg and Jülich revealed how intense electric fields drive electrons in graphene, causin...
NASA systems engineering team details Habitable Worlds Observatory mission architecture
Finding an Earth-like world beyond the solar system is the holy grail of exoplanet research, and the field has seen remarkable technological advances in detecti...
2024 solar storm triggered ultrarelativistic electrons inside Earth's 'impenetrable barrier'
The Earth is surrounded by an invisible barrier that was thought to prevent highly energetic electrons from reaching closer to our planet. But in 2024, Japan's...
Refugees' experiences of loss shape their business ambitions
The severity of the losses refugees experience can shape the kinds of businesses they build in a new country, according to a qualitative study by Tilburg Univer...
Portable device accurately and rapidly detects PFAS in water
Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are synthetic chemicals known for their exceptional resistance to degradation, earning them the nickname "forever che...
Can gravitational fields break and reconnect? Einstein's equations suggest they can
More than a century after Einstein first devised the equations that describe gravity, physicists are still finding new ways of interpreting them. Luca Comisso,...
Urban street trees lose much of their capacity to cool during droughts
The combination of heat waves and drought markedly reduces the capacity of street trees to cool the air in Mediterranean cities. The lack of soil moisture sever...
Launch of global seed platform to tackle native seed bottleneck holding back nature restoration
On Oct. 13, the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (RBG Kew) launched the Seed Portal for Online Data (SeedPOD), a new open-access platform designed to tackle bottlenec...
Japan's genome-editing law sets a global ethics challenge
A Hiroshima University researcher contends that Japan's newly enacted law regulating human genome-edited embryos and germ cells marks a significant advance in t...