Category Science & Discovery

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Three NASA-funded rockets are set to launch from Poker Flat Research Range in Fairbanks, Alaska, in an experiment that seeks to reveal how auroral substorms affect the behavior and composition of Earth’s far upper atmosphere. The…

Nature, Published online: 19 March 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00801-0 A bacterium makes a molecule that kills drug-resistant fungi in an unusual way — by targeting various phospholipid molecules in membranes. Source link

While actual road rage is primarily a human trait, some birds on the Galápagos Islands are experiencing their own issues with traffic. Galápagos yellow warblers (Setophaga petechia aureola) that are exposed to noisy traffic appear to show heightened levels of…

Credit: Artem Podrez from Pexels People generally try to make other people feel good about themselves, but not when they dislike them. That’s the finding of a new study by psychologists at the Annenberg Public Policy Center (APPC) of the…

Coorens, T. H. H. et al. Nature (2025). Article  Google Scholar  Shalon, D. et al. Nature 617, 581–591 (2023). Article  PubMed  Google Scholar  Hayakawa, Y., Nakagawa, H., Rustgi, A. K., Que, J. & Wang, T. C. Cell Stem Cell…

All good things come to an end—even the Milky Way. Our home galaxy’s demise isn’t estimated to occur for at least another 4 or 5 billion years, when astronomers believe it will start colliding with its neighbor Andromeda. However, a…

The findings could be helpful to growers as they create management plans for their fields, according to the researchers. Credit: Waldemar Insecticides may help growers hoping to protect their crops from harmful insects, but they also may contribute to a larger…

Part of the DESI telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory in Arizona.Credit: KPNO Marenfeld Fresh data have bolstered the discovery that dark energy, the mysterious force that makes galaxies accelerate away from each other, has weakened over the past 4.5…

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Schematic illustrating that Chang’e-6 norites document the 4.25 Ga lunar South Pole-Aitken impact event. Credit: Su Bin Scientists have long sought to determine the age of the moon’s South Pole–Aitken (SPA) basin, the largest and oldest known impact crater on…