As rescue and recovery efforts continue to ramp-up in earthquake-ravaged Myanmar, new details about how the geologic setting amplified the disaster are beginning to emerge. The March 28 magnitude 7.7 earthquake that rocked through Southeast Asia collapsed buildings, dams and bridges, and killed at least 2,700 people. The rupture occurred along several hundred kilometers of

The assembly process has remained mysterious for more than 300 years Living plant cells regenerate their protective cell walls under a microscope, providing the first high-resolution time-lapse videos of the assembly process. The cell wall's primary component — cellulose — glows thanks to a molecular probe that stuck to the compound when freshly made. Huh

Charge-parity violation occurs in a class of particles called baryons  Two protons (indicated with p’s) collide at the LHCb experiment, producing a lambda-b baryon comprised of three quarks — dubbed up (u), down (d) and bottom (b) — that decays into various other particles (colored lines). LHCb collaboration/arXiv.org 2025 There’s a newfound mismatch between matter

Mandimycin soaks up molecules that all forms of life share, yet appears to target only fungi Fungi, like this colony growing in a lab dish, are notoriously hard to treat. A newly discovered compound made by bacteria kills even fungi that are resistant to other antifungal drugs. The compound may one day become a drug

A type of tool pioneered by European Neandertals may have traveled a continent away Multipurpose stone tools such as this one, found at a 60,000- to 50,000-year-old Chinese site, closely resemble implements made by European and western Asian Neandertals. Hao Li Stone tools traditionally attributed to European and western Asian Neandertals have turned up nearly

The technique could convert cement manufacture from carbon superemitter to carbon sequesterer Cement production (shown) accounts for a fourth of the world’s carbon emissions. But a new technique using seawater splitting might make its production carbon-negative. bfk92/E+/Getty Images Plus A new cement-making process could shift production from being a carbon source to a carbon sink

X-ray emission could offer a way to explore the cataclysmic final chapters of planets In the Helix Nebula, X-rays (blue in this composite false-color image) from a white dwarf at the center (not visible) heat a surrounding envelope of dust and gas (yellow). JPL-Caltech/NASA The decades-long mystery of a never-ending explosion of X-rays around the

The tools could help uncover better cancer treatments, illuminate rare diseases and more New AI tools to detect and describe previously undiscovered proteins have the potential to improve disease treatments and boost our basic biological knowledge. Annekatrine Kirketerp-Mølle Generative artificial intelligence has entered a new frontier of fundamental biology: helping scientists to better understand proteins

On display Museum experts are exploring how to bring the science dioramas of yore into the 21st century, while ensuring scientific accuracy and acknowledging past biases, freelance writer Amber Dance reported in “The diorama dilemma.” Reader Gary Hoyle reminisced about his time working as an exhibits artist and curator of natural history at the Maine

Science News has been covering nuclear physics since our earliest incarnation, starting with scientists’ effort to decode the secrets of the atom. In the 1930s, readers learned about the discovery of the positron and scientists’ first splitting of a uranium atom. The first sustained nuclear reaction followed soon after, in a repurposed squash court at