NASA’s Aura and Canada’s SCISAT near the end of missions to monitor ozone-depleting substances NASA’s Aura satellite (illustrated) has been orbiting Earth for more than 20 years. It is expected to run...
A future Mojave Desert may have new pockets of habitat, but the reptiles may be stranded Despite living in hot deserts, Gila monsters prefer cooler microhabitats, like shady burrows. As the Mojave hea...
Vaccination led to a 20 percent reduction in dementia risk in Wales A shingles vaccine might have an unexpected benefit, potentially reducing the risk of being diagnosed with dementia. People who rece...
On the ISS, the Japanese condiment developed nuttier notes than earthbound versions The space environment may impart a unique taste of space on foods fermented there. For miso, that led to a nuttier, ...
The electrical waves may help injured cells’ neighbors prepare to heal wounds Wounded skin cells, like the keratinocytes shown in this colored scanning electron micrograph, send out bursts of electric...
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 ...
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...
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...
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 m...
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 impl...
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...
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 visib...
