Centuries of Change: What Tomb TT209 Reveals About Egyptian Burial Practices
A new study of chamber three in tomb TT209 traces how a Theban burial space was used and repurposed from the 25th Dynasty to the Ptolemaic era.
A star’s violent death exposed a hidden supermassive black hole
University of Maryland astronomers have identified a dormant supermassive black hole positioned far from the center of its host galaxy. The discovery marks the...
Cell-inspired nanoreactor turns sunlight into hydrogen peroxide
Researchers have created a hollow CdS@polydopamine nanoreactor that imitates two important features of living cells. The design offers a new way to reproduce some...
Nearly half of dementia cases may be linked to risks you can change
Nearly half of dementia cases may be connected to risk factors that people can potentially change, including smoking and high blood pressure. New research...
Claude Fable 5 AI finds a tiny formula that topples an 87-year-old math conjecture
As millions of people were coming down from the excitement of the FIFA World Cup Final recently, a different kind of excitement...
567-million-year-old fossils rewrite the dawn of animal life
Researchers have discovered an unusually rich fossil site in a remote region of Canada's Northwest Territories, revealing new details about some of the earliest...
AI agents are checking the scientific literature — and spotting decades-old errors
For decades, chemists have relied on handbook values for a molecule’s boiling point to identify substances and plan processes such as distillation. But...
Levitating sensor for magnetic fields could detect ultrafaint brain activity
Scientists have turned a levitating magnet into a device for measuring magnetic fields, known as a magnetometer — one that is sensitive enough...
Heat waves have killed millions. Here’s how scientists tally lives lost
A more sophisticated approach involves a tool called an exposure-response function. Such functions describe the correlation between temperature and the number of people...
Scientists up in arms about cuts to UK physics and astronomy
A growing clamour of voices is calling for the United Kingdom’s new prime minister, Andy Burnham, to reinstate funding for the iconic Lovell...
Scientists discover the brain cells that keep you motivated
What allows people to keep working toward a goal when the challenge becomes more demanding? Researchers at Nagoya University in Japan have identified a...
80-million-year-old snake brain reveals a surprising evolutionary secret
More than 4,000 snake species live today, all descended from heavily modified lizard ancestors. Yet scientists still do not fully understand how snakes developed...
The recovered notes of Professor Alborough
It started off as a silly simulation. I fed the quantum computer everything I knew about the process: how heat pulls flavour from...
James Bond, not Bond James: why scientific publishing must respect name order
Until nearly the end of the twentieth century, most papers indexed in the Science Citation Index — a database of scientific papers —...
An ancient mitochondrial program tunes translation to haem availability
Cell lines and cultureHAP1 cells were cultured in Iscove’s modified Dulbecco’s medium (IMDM) (Thermo Fisher Scientific) supplemented with 10% heat-inactivated fetal calf serum (FCS)...
Cancer-fighting chewing gum cuts HPV levels by up to 93%
Researchers have developed a bioengineered chewing gum that may offer a new way to target microbes associated with head and neck cancer. In tests...
518-million-year-old creature reveals the origins of spider fangs
Scientists have discovered the earliest known evidence of the structures that eventually became spider fangs in a fossil dating back 518 million years. The...