Category: 7. Science

The joint XRISM X-ray observatory chronicles the strange winds of a dying star.

The Universe is a strange place. The X-ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission (XRISM) orbiting observatory recently highlighted this fact, when it was turned…

For ants, scent is language. Pheromones tell workers where to forage, alert them to intruders, and even help assign jobs inside the nest. Strip that chemical conversation away, and society collapses.

“They stop performing their duties, which…

It would be an understatement to say that the Earth’s magnetic field is important. It’s one of the reasons we’re able to live on this rock tumbling through space, and it also gives us the gorgeous aurora borealis. So it’s a pretty big deal when…

As night falls on October evenings, glance toward the southeast horizon. If there is one star that serves to announce the arrival of fall as the leaves have begun to turn, unquestionably that title would have to go to the brightest star within…

Lipid nanoparticles (LNPs) are the delivery vehicles of modern medicine, carrying cancer drugs, gene therapies and vaccines into cells. Until recently, many scientists assumed that all LNPs followed more or less the same blueprint,…

According to a…

Ferroptosis: Introduction to the Non-Apoptotic Form of Regulated Cell Death

First identified and characterised in 2012, ferroptosis is a distinct, regulated form of non-apoptotic cell death marked by iron-dependent accumulation of reactive…