The Biophysical World Inside a Jam-Packed Cell
It’s a familiar image, reprinted in countless biology textbooks: an illustration of a typical cell, halved like a grapefruit to reveal its innards. Strands of
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We tested the ‘first wooden, sustainable air purifier’ and it’s a thing of beauty
The IQAir Atem Earth is the most elegant, eco-friendly air purifier we have ever tested, and we absolutely love it for that. It is by
Missing megaflood: How did the Mediterranean transform from a salt-filled bowl to a deep sea if it wasn’t a cataclysmic deluge?
Researchers have long believed that a sudden, massive deluge filled a dry, salt-filled Mediterranean 5 million years ago. Turns out that probably didn’t happen, but
Diagnostic dilemma: 83-year-old man’s unusual form of syphilis had an ‘uncertain’ source
A man went to the emergency room after being in and out of hospitals for a month, and doctors found a surprising explanation for his
Surprise shark caught on camera for first time in Antarctica’s near-freezing deep
Many experts had thought sharks didn’t exist in the frigid waters of Antarctica. (Image credit: University of Western Australia)
AI is helping individual scientists, study suggests — but not science
Artificial intelligence is helping researchers advance their careers and drill deeper into specific questions, but it is not necessarily benefiting science on the whole.
The Story of Stories traces the arc of storytelling across human history
In The Story of Stories, technologist Kevin Ashton explores how storytelling has evolved and why stories matter.
Renpho Morphoscan Nova smart scale review: Deep-dive body analysis
The Renpho Morphoscan Nova goes above and beyond what typical smart scales can do, but is it worth the steep price?
Vanishing lakes in Tibet may have triggered earthquakes by awakening faults in Earth’s crust
Shrinking lakes in Tibet likely woke up long-dormant tectonic faults, a new study finds. The findings strengthen the link between climate change and earthquakes
5,500 years ago, a teenage girl was buried with her father’s bones on her chest, new DNA study reveals
A novel DNA analysis of skeletons excavated from a Neolithic hunter-gatherer cemetery in Sweden has revealed surprising family relationships.
Humanoid robots show off creepily impressive kung-fu moves during Lunar New Year festival in China
Improvements to the AI that powers Unitree’s H2 and G1 humanoid robots, alongside mechanical upgrades, have resulted in a dazzling kung-fu demonstration.
Sleep deprivation harms the gut via the vagus nerve, early study reveals
New research reveals that sleep deprivation sends aberrant signals through the vagus nerve, triggering a serotonin surge that can kill gut stem cells.
Physicists dream up ‘spacetime quasicrystals’ that could underpin the universe
Quasicrystals are orderly structures that never repeat. Scientists just showed they can exist in space and time.
Some snakes lack the ‘hunger hormone.’ Experts are hungry to know why
The complex biology of ghrelin, the hunger hormone, has researchers wondering how its absence helps snakes last a long time with no food, if at