Crab Crisis: Is a Lost Sense of Smell Decimating Populations?
A University of Toronto Scarborough study reveals that ocean acidification, caused by climate change, impairs the sense of smell of economically important Dungeness crabs. This…
A University of Toronto Scarborough study reveals that ocean acidification, caused by climate change, impairs the sense of smell of economically important Dungeness crabs. This…
Researchers have discovered a “metabolic switch” in the brain’s immune cells that could serve as a target for Alzheimer’s disease treatment. A recent discovery of…
A versatile robot that would autonomously map, traverse, and explore previously inaccessible destinations is being put to the test at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. How…
Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh have created a universal receptor system for T cells that could revolutionize CAR T cell and other immunotherapies for…
Physicists at The Australian National University (ANU) are using nanoparticles to create innovative light sources that will allow us to “peel back the curtain” into…
Physicists at Delft University of Technology have created a microchip using a unique combination of two Nobel Prize-winning techniques, optical trapping and frequency combs. This…
Researchers from Yale and the Broad Institute discovered that the loss of about 10,000 fragments of genetic information differentiates humans from our closest primate relatives….
Researchers report on the first-of-its-kind fetal procedure to fix a potentially deadly vascular malformation in the brain, avoiding heart failure and brain injury after birth,…
The small island of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean is often envisioned as a lush paradise, dotted with large trees and teeming with a diverse…
MIT engineers’ new technique analyzes the 3D organization of the genome at a resolution 100 times higher than before. Researchers at MIT have created a…
New experiments have called into question a popular explanation for the properties that give rise to dry land. Despite being a crucial factor in making…
Biomedical engineers and architects are collaborating on a project to create a living building façade that adapts to its environment. By studying plants, fetal chick…
A study by University College London researchers discovered that humans inherited genetic material from Neanderthals, affecting nose shape. The gene responsible for a taller nose…
The rare metal terbium has been found in an exoplanet’s atmosphere for the first time. Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have also developed a…
The event was spotted in infrared data — also a first — suggesting further searches in this band could turn up more such bursts. MIT…
Two researchers from Queensland University of Technology (QUT) have utilized a simple laptop computer and a piece of rock, obtained from a diamond mine’s “waste…
The 2022 Nobel Prize in physics highlighted the challenges quantum experiments pose to “local realism.” However, a growing body of experts propose “retrocausality” as a…
A new study explores shyness in children, finding that temperamental shyness may be a distinct trait in some, while others experience shyness as an emotional…