Category: 7. Science

Researchers at VIB and KU Leuven have identified a molecular process that allows motor neurons to maintain protein production, a process that fails in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). The study, published in Nature Neuroscience,…

When tissue is severely damaged, surviving cells can respond in a concentrated burst of biological repair known as compensatory proliferation. Nearly 50 years after this survival strategy was first identified in fly larvae, scientists have…

A collaborative team of researchers from the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, the University of Florida, Gainesville and University of Iowa have developed groundbreaking tools that allow grasses—including major grain crops like…

The teeth of the Atlantic wolffish, a bottom-dwelling predator in the North Atlantic Ocean, are strong enough to crush hard-shelled prey and now new analysis has revealed that their core contains an extremely rare material that helps them…

If all goes to plan, February 2026 will see the launch of NASA’s Artemis II mission, returning humans to the Moon for the first time since the Apollo era.

The astronauts onboard the Artemis II spacecraft won’t be landing and setting foot on the…

When SpaceX CEO Elon Musk chose a remote Texas outpost on the Gulf Coast to develop his company’s ambitious Starship, he put the 400-foot rocket on a collision course with the commercial airline industry.

Each time SpaceX did a test run of…

Whatever I may be thinking of, I am always at the same time more or less aware of myself, of my personal existence. At the same time it is I who am aware; so that the total self of me, being as it were duplex, partly known and partly knower,…

In 1981, a clay sculpture called the “Great Mother” was discovered in an ancient village in…

BETHLEHEM, Pa. — Brad Klein reviews upcoming astronomical highlights with Bethlehem’s “Backyard Astronomy Guy,” Marty McGuire.

Mark your calendar for the total lunar eclipse that takes place just…