US biology lab locked down for more than a week amid smuggling inquiry
Biologists at Indiana University (IU) Bloomington have been locked out of their laboratories for more than a week, after the university suddenly changed...
Scientists accidentally discover DNA that breaks the rules of life
A test designed to push the limits of single cell DNA sequencing ended up revealing something far more surprising: a microscopic organism from a...
Scientists finally solve 40-year-old physics puzzle about how things grow
Understanding how surfaces grow has long been one of physics' most important challenges. In 1986, researchers introduced the Kardar-Parisi-Zhang (KPZ) equation, a theory designed...
Oak trees are delaying spring to starve caterpillars
In spring forests, timing is everything. Many insects, especially caterpillars, hatch just as tree leaves are young, tender, and full of nutrients. This perfect...
Systematic partisan content skews in TikTok during the 2024 US elections
Ethics statementThroughout this study, we took care to follow relevant ethical standards. The use of sock puppet accounts is an established research technique for...
Nanoscale ‘conveyor belt’ teleports quantum state of electron
Practical quantum computers will require many millions of interacting quantum bits (qubits). This could, in principle, be achieved by using a property of electrons...
Androgen loss accelerates brain tumour growth via HPA axis activation
Cell linesThe syngeneic mouse GBM model SB28 was provided by H. Okada, and GL261 was obtained from the Developmental Therapeutic Program, NCI. CPA was provided...
This tiny outer Solar System world has an atmosphere. It shouldn’t
A group of professional and amateur astronomers in Japan has uncovered evidence that a small, distant object in the outer Solar System is surrounded...
Scientists just created exotic new forms of matter that shouldn’t exist
Quantum technology is widely expected to transform how large and complex data sets are processed. Although it is currently used mostly in laboratories and...
How fertilizer shortages caused by the energy crisis threaten food security
Since March, war in the Middle East has disrupted global fertilizer markets. Urea prices jumped by nearly 46% in a month, as geopolitical...
Meet the academics refusing to use generative AI
Writing complaintsAI-generated writing is an area Elizabeth Wolkovich also takes issue with. As a conservation scientist at the University of British Columbia in...
This simple amino acid supplement greatly reduces Alzheimer’s damage
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a progressive brain disorder and a leading cause of dementia worldwide. Despite years of research, there is still no cure....
Scientists turn plastic waste into clean hydrogen fuel using sunlight
Scientists are developing a new way to tackle two major global problems at once: plastic pollution and the demand for clean energy. By using...
Evolution isn’t random. Scientists find the same genes used for 120 million years
Scientists have uncovered evidence that evolution has relied on the same genetic "cheat sheet" for more than 120 million years, raising the possibility that...
Hantavirus crops up on a cruise ship — what scientists are watching
Infectious-disease researchers are eager to learn more about a suspected outbreak of hantavirus, on a cruise ship in the Atlantic Ocean. Three people...