science
Artificially produced cells communicate with each other
Friedrich Simmel and Aurore Dupin, researchers at the Technical University of Munich (TUM), have for the first time created artificial cell assemblies that can...
Why do Hydra end up with just a single head?
Often considered immortal, the freshwater Hydra can regenerate any part of its body, a trait discovered by the Geneva naturalist Abraham Trembley nearly 300...
Study finds simple explanation for endurance of religion
Childcare can be expensive, stressful, and annoying to organise, but a University of Otago-led study has found it may also be behind religion's resilience.
Scholars...
Researchers race against extinction to uncover tree’s cancer-fighting properties
Three Chinese fir trees on a nature reserve in Southeastern China are the last of their kind. As their existence is threatened by human...
Physicists show quantum materials can be tuned for superconductivity
Some iron-based superconductors could benefit from a tuneup, according to two studies by Rice University physicists and collaborators.
"Our work demonstrates a new design principle...
New paper indicates potential for primitive life on icy Barnard b...
Barnard b (or GJ 699 b) is a recently discovered Super-Earth planet orbiting Barnard's Star, making it the second nearest star system to the...
New scale for electronegativity rewrites the chemistry textbook
Electronegativity is one of the most well-known models for explaining why chemical reactions occur. Now, Martin Rahm from Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, has...
Human diet causing ‘catastrophic’ damage to planet: study
The way humanity produces and eats food must radically change to avoid millions of deaths and "catastrophic" damage to the planet, according to a...
60 percent of coffee varieties face ‘extinction risk’
Three in five species of wild coffee are at risk of extinction as a deadly mix of climate change, disease and deforestation puts the...
Water, not temperature, limits global forest growth as climate warms
The growth of forest trees all over the world is becoming more water-limited as the climate warms, according to new research from an international...
New study finds evidence of changing seasons, rain on Titan’s north...
An image from the international Cassini spacecraft provides evidence of rainfall on the north pole of Titan, the largest of Saturn's moons. The rainfall...
