Category Science & Discovery

The new study led by the University of Cambridge has revealed that as our springs and summers get hotter and drier, the UK wildfire season is being stretched and intensified. Credit: Sarah Baker A new study led by the University…

PostdocNet represents several thousand postdocs at the Max Planck institutes and provides opportunities for professional development and community building.Credit: Swen Pfoertner/Alamy A year into my first postdoc, at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin, Germany,…

An international research collaboration led by the University of Surrey’s Nuclear Physics Group has overturned the long-standing belief that the atomic nucleus of llead-208 (²⁰⁸Pb) is perfectly spherical. The discovery challenges fundamental assumptions about nuclear structure and has far-reaching implications…

You don’t need to spend thousands of dollars upgrading your TV’s audio (though it is fun to do so if you have the cash). Right now, you can get a Bose Solo soundbar for just $99 as part of the…

Time evolution of features. Credit: Nature Communications (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-56551-0 How prepared are we to deflect an asteroid heading towards Earth? This question is answered by two studies just published in Nature Communications, the result of a collaboration between Politecnico…

Paiva, P. et al. Animal fatty acid synthase: a chemical nanofactory. Chem. Rev. 121, 9502–9553 (2021). Article  CAS  PubMed  MATH  Google Scholar  Ameer, F., Scandiuzzi, L., Hasnain, S., Kalbacher, H. & Zaidi, N. De novo lipogenesis in health and disease.…

Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder set in motion before birth. Scientists at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital led the first in uterotreatment of SMA with the orally administered drug risdiplam. More than two years after the…

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Impact of mutations on antibiotic resistance in lines evolved to L-CHG10-teixobactin, vancomycin and daptomycin. Schematic overview of protein regulation effects. Credit: Science Translational Medicine (2025). DOI: 10.1126 British physician and microbiologist Alexander Fleming, discoverer of penicillin nearly 100 years ago,…

Babies with severe spinal muscular atrophy lack sufficient proteins to maintain motor neurons.Credit: YsaL/Getty A two-and-a-half-year-old girl shows no signs of a rare genetic disorder, after becoming the first person to be treated for the motor-neuron condition while in the…