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This week brings the largest supermoon of the year. Supermoons occur because the moon’s orbit is not perfectly circular around the Earth. Instead, it is an ellipse, meaning that sometimes the moon will be closer to the Earth than at other…
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,…
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…
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…