Category Science & Discovery

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Whether you’re planning to bump this year’s song of the summer, or you just want to blast the same songs you’ve been listening to since high school, it’s time to invest in a waterproof speaker. Right now, Amazon has the…

Comparison of oxidation products from chamber and ambient measurements. Credit: Nature Geoscience (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41561-025-01645-z Anthropogenic organic aerosols are carbon-containing particles emitted by humans into the air, which are classified as particulate matter. They pose a significant health threat and…

Work is under way to develop mRNA vaccines against a host of diseases, but scientists fear the NIH will pull funding for such research. Credit: Irfan Khan/Los Angeles Times via Getty The US National Institutes of Health (NIH) has expanded…

Animals hitch rides together all the time. Sometimes the relationship is mutually beneficial, while in other instances it’s parasitic. Every so often, however, researchers document a previously unknown team-up that is just baffling. That was the case when a team…

Structure of a cilium of the green alga Clamydomonas reinhardtii (tomographic segmentation). Credit: Adrian Nievergelt, adapted from Advanced Science (2025). DOI: 10.1002 Biological cells often possess thin, hair-like protrusions on their surface known as cilia, which serve various functions ranging…

US military personnel in San Diego at the US-Mexico border.Credit: Carlos Moreno/NurPhoto/Getty What are the implications of allowing artificial intelligence (AI) to make critical decisions about life and death in combat? That’s a question that Nicholas Evans, a social scientist…

As a fatal measles outbreak continues to spread, the United States’ leading public health official has offered some advice that’s not backed by science. Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr., told Fox News earlier this month…

“Those chemical modifications that decorate [histones] and modify gene expression — they’re metabolites, full stop,” said Finley, the cancer biologist. “Chemical modifications themselves are metabolites, and their removal is dependent on metabolites.” Fifteen years ago, when Kathryn Wellen was a…

Credit: Wang et al. Quantum computers, devices that process information leveraging quantum mechanical effects, could outperform classical computers in some complex optimization and computational tasks. However, before these systems can be adopted on a large-scale, some technical challenges will need…