Category Science & Discovery

When was the last time you felt spangled? Even if you don’t know the phrase, you know the feeling. It’s grappling with realities while wrestling with fantasies. Finding grace in everyday grit. Not letting disrepair turn into despair. Becoming overwhelmed…

What’s more, during NREM sleep norepinephrine levels change rhythmically. This neurotransmitter could help tie together their hypotheses — the physical movement of CSF through brain tissues and the “brainwashing” occurring during sleep. The team engineered mice in which they could…

View of the LHCb experiment in its underground cavern. Credit: CERN On March 24, at the annual Rencontres de Moriond conference taking place in La Thuile, Italy, the LHCb collaboration at CERN reported a new milestone in our understanding of…

A photograph of antimatter particle (pale blue) meeting a matter particle and being annihilated.Credit: Science Photo Library Physicists have, for the first time, seen a matter particle from the proton family behave fundamentally differently to its antimatter twin. The finding…

Thanks to the internet, we’re all more connected than ever. Sometimes, all that’s stopping you is a language barrier. If you’re ready to tear that down and interact with more of the world, Babbel is ready to serve as your…

The belfry an 11th century Romanesque church emerges from the Sau reservoir, about 100 km (62 miles) north of Barcelona, in Vilanova de Sau, Spain, on Monday, March 24, 2025. Credit: AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti As Spain choked on stubborn drought…

This February, ecologist Timothée Poisot was surprised when he read through the peer reviews of a manuscript he had submitted for publication. One of the referee reports seemed to have been written with, or perhaps entirely by, artificial intelligence (AI).…

A baby hummingbird might have a special way of warding off predators, which threaten tropical hummingbird species in infancy. Baby White-necked jacobins (Florisuga mellivora) in Panama seem to pretend to be a fuzzy and dangerous caterpillar. The findings are detailed…

Images of 73 protoplanetary discs in the Lupus star forming region (two of the images contain binary stars). Only a fraction of the discs extend beyond the orbit of Neptune, when compared to our own Solar System. Most of the…

The SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID has killed more than 1.2 million people in the US.Credit: Steve Gschmeissner/Science Photo Library The US National Institutes of Health (NIH) and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have begun cancelling billions of…