Matthias C Truttmann, assistant professor of molecular and integrative physiology at the University of Michigan, has received the 2025 Ferruccio Ritossa Research Scholar Award from the Cell Stress Society International, or CSSI. This award…
Elon Musk has jumped into the 3I/ATLAS debate, talking to podcast host Joe Rogan about what he thinks of aliens and the interstellar comet. The SpaceX CEO, who dreams of establishing a human colony on Mars, says the day he finds proof of alien…
The Greenland Ice Sheet — the second largest ice sheet on Earth — has been melting at its fastest rate in 12,000 years due to rising surface temperatures caused by man-made climate change,…
Some orcas have a taste for liver — specifically, the livers of great white sharks.
Videos taken by scientists in Mexico reveal how the crafty whales manage to snag bites of the apex predators’ fatty organs.
Researchers filmed two orca hunts…
We know it looks like it is, but the moon isn’t full yet. In fact, there’s still two days to go before this month’s offering. But don’t worry, there’s still so much you can see tonight. Just keep…
Before taking up a position in an engineering department, I was warned by my neuroscience colleagues that engineers “don’t get biology,” and, by extension, they wouldn’t get me either. There is superficial truth in this. Few…
Physicists at the Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter (MPSD) in Hamburg have discovered a striking new form of quantum behavior. In star-shaped Kagome crystals—named after a traditional Japanese…
In 2023, Surgeon General Dr. Vivek H. Murthy released an advisory1, declaring an unprecedented epidemic of loneliness within the United States. While the advisory outlined numerous factors implicated in the rising rates of social isolation, the…
Over a few million years, the spider Dysdera tilosensis (a species found only in the Canary Islands) has accomplished something extraordinary: it has cut its genome size nearly in half while adapting to its island environment. Despite this…