SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN MAGAZINE (January 21, 2025): The latest issue features ‘A Cellular Revolution’ – Long-overlooked molecular blobs are transforming our understanding of how life works….
Tiny specks called biomolecular condensates are leading to a new understanding of the cell
SCIENCE MAGAZINE (January 16, 2025): The latest issue features ‘Shear Wonder’ – Chain-like materials manifest complex strain responses..
NATURE MAGAZINE (January 15, 2025): The latest issue features ‘Punk Rocks’ – Spiky 3D fossils add to the diversity of ancient molluscs…
Sensory organs on the walking legs of the male wasp spider can catch the scent of a female in a mood for romance.
Large language models can propose fine-tuning adjustments for an electron accelerator in Germany.
Blood vessels in the brain rhythmically constrict and dilate to drive waves of cleansing fluid through the organ.
Dust cloud is thought to be the first debris disk to be seen around a planetary nebula.
SCIENCE MAGAZINE (January 9, 2025): The latest issue features ‘Not Skipping Meals’ – A narrow diet not responsible for extinction of short-faced kangaroos…
The first clinical trial of zebrafish embryos acting as cancer “avatars” will start soon
The fast-growing platform may be more equitable than X, but gives scientists a smaller stage
Their keen noses are helping researchers uncover the diversity of the Pacific Northwest’s underground fungi
Pulsating blood vessels push fluid into and out of the brains of slumbering mice
NATURE MAGAZINE (January 8, 2025): The latest issue features ‘Skin Deep’ – How the crocodile’s head got its scales…
A battery-like technology uses a metal called tantalum to create an equivalent of digital 0s and 1s.
The use of shed skins might help to ward off predators, experiments suggest.
Proteins could serve as biomarkers for senescent cells, which have stopped dividing but have not yet died.
Models and experiments demonstrate what happens when a knitted fabric is deformed.
MIT Technology Review (January 8, 2025): The latest issue features ’10 Breakthrough Technologies’ – Fast-learning robots, next-gen jet fuel, new HIV protection meds, the largest camera ever built to document the cosmos, and more. Plus: digital twins, high-tech fisheries, and the AI Hype Index.
What will really matter in the long run? That’s the question we tackle each year as we compile this annual list.
Despite fewer clicks, copyright fights, and sometimes iffy answers, AI could unlock new ways to summon all the world’s knowledge.
After decades of frustration, machine-learning tools are unlocking a treasure trove of acoustic data for ecologists.
If most robots still need remote human operators to be safe and effective, why should we welcome them into our homes?
Science Magazine (December 18, 2024): The latest issue features ‘Light Emission with a Twist’ – Hot, twisted carbon nanotube yarns emit bright circularly polarlized light…
A brace of new studies probes benefits and risks for an understudied group
Carbon nanotube filaments with a twisted geometry emit spinning heat waves at high temperatures
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An injectable HIV drug with a novel mechanism shows remarkable ability to prevent infection
When the forces of plate tectonics tear continents apart, it’s an incredibly violent process, unfolding in slow motion. It was also thought to be very local: Magma from hot, rising mantle rock seeds volcanoes along the rift zone, while the far-removed cold interiors of continents remain intact.
Microscopic algalike fossils from China reported early this year astounded evolutionary biologists with their extreme age. Dated at 1.6 billion years old, the specimens suggest one of the hallmarks of complex life—multicellularity—arose far earlier than previously thought.
For 98 years, physicists knew of two types of permanently magnetic materials. Now, they’ve found a third. In familiar ferromagnets such as iron, unpaired electrons on neighboring atoms spin in the same direction, magnetizing the material so that, for example, it sticks to a refrigerator. Antiferromagnets such as chromium have zero overall magnetism, but they possess an atomic-scale magnetic pattern, with neighboring electrons spinning in opposite directions. Novel altermagnets—hypothesized 5 years ago—share aspects of both.
Largest study of links between consumption of the beverage and gut diversity finds coffee-loving bacteria.
Chemistry of the planet’s atmosphere suggests that its interior has never held water.
Artefacts from a Mesopotamian archaeological site suggest that people in the region founded and later rejected an early form of the organized state.
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Model-stumping benchmark shows human experts remain on top—for now
Researchers probe volcanoes’ response to a changing world
Urgent action underway to bolster treatments and prevent dangerous microbes from spilling across borders
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