Category Science & Discovery

Evaluation of antifungal efficacy of mandimycin in different neutropenic mice models. Credit: Nature (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41586-025-08678-9 The discovery of a new preclinical compound with strong antifungal activity against multidrug-resistant pathogens is described in Nature. The drug, named mandimycin, is a…

Health-care staff in Texas are racing to vaccinate infants against measles as an outbreak in the state spreads.Credit: Jan Sonnenmair/Getty A measles outbreak in the United States is growing , with no end in sight. As of 18 March, 279…

Sex comprises an intricate tangle of impulses and interactions between partners. All the while, the brain hosts an even more complex tangle of chemicals. Neuroscientists have learned a great deal about the neural mechanisms underlying sex, but questions about the…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain California lawmakers are proposing legislation that aims to reestablish safeguards for the state’s streams and wetlands in response to a Supreme Court ruling limiting federal clean water regulations. Supporters say the legislation has taken on heightened…

On the Swiss–French border, at the headquarters of the European laboratory CERN, a battle is under way for the future of particle physics. CERN’s leaders want to build the biggest machine on the planet here: an enormous particle accelerator that…

You wouldn’t pay for five internet plans just to access your favorite websites, so why are you paying multiple AI subscriptions to use different models? If you’ve been switching between ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude to get the best results, there’s…

(Left) In the conventional theory of the Mpemba effect, the relaxation speed is quantified using a specific distance measure, such as the total variation distance and the Kullback-Leibler divergence. (Right) This study proposes a new framework based on thermomajorization, which…

Chetan Nayak leads Microsoft’s quantum computing effort.Credit: John Brecher for Microsoft Anaheim, California A Microsoft researcher today presented results behind the company’s controversial claim last month to have created the first ‘topological’ qubits — a long-sought goal of quantum computing.…

Acura just launched its all-new SUV, the premium, compact, gas-powered ADX to live alongside the MDX, RDX, TLX, and ZDX. Of these, only the ZDX is electric, as the brand is taking a conservative approach to the transition to EVs.…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Guided by the lived experiences of community partners, Northwestern University scientists have simulated the effects of zero-emission vehicle (ZEV) adoption on future air quality for the greater Chicago area. The results are published today in the…