Scientific discoveries and research
What was the political and economic importance of the ancient city Alexandria on the Tigris? How was the city laid out? And what does the material cul...
If you've ever watched a glass blower at work, you've seen a material behaving in a very special way. As it cools, the viscosity of molten glass incre...
Water is made of hydrogen and oxygen, and sometimes these atoms are slightly heavier than usual. These heavier forms are called isotopes. As water eva...
First names in Western countries today are more diverse than they were before early modern states evolved. This difference started to emerge in the 17...
A new international study reveals the unexpected importance of acoustic communication in the evolution of boxfishes. This discovery offers new perspec...
A century ago, the section of U.S. federal law governing public health and welfare was relatively small and loosely connected to the rest of the legal...
Neural crest cells are a population of stem cells that invade the embryo in early development. They play a big role in what you look like: the pigment...
The standard cosmological model (present-day version of "Big Bang," called Lambda-CDM) gives an age of the universe close to 13.8 billion years and mu...
Researchers have significantly enhanced an artificial intelligence tool used to rapidly detect bacterial contamination in food by eliminating misclass...
A new software tool, ovrlpy, improves quality control in spatial transcriptomics, a key technology in biomedical research. Developed by the Berlin Ins...
Scientific findings are in the news. They're cited on food packages and beverage labels. They are discussed in podcasts and argued over by politicians...
Scroll through social media long enough and a pattern emerges. Pause on a post questioning climate change or taking a hard line on a political issue,...
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