Category: 7. Science

To think, feel, talk and move, neurons send messages through electrical signals in the brain and spinal cord.

This intricate communication network is built of billions of neurons connected by synapses and managed and…

Lasers are now helping scientists peer inside some of the world’s most fragile scientific treasures without ever opening them.

Researchers have developed a laser-based scanning technique that can identify the preservation fluids inside…

Forest soils are doing more climate work than most people realize, quietly absorbing methane from the air year after year.

New long-term measurements from southwest Germany show that, in some forests, this underground methane sink has been…

Earth’s biosphere is brimming with symbiotic relationships: from bacteria that became our cells’ mitochondria, to mycorrhizal fungi that help plants grow, to the myriad mites, wasps, worms, and flies that make a living by parasitizing other…

In the early 1960s, Dutch astronomer Adriaan Blaauw observed stars moving at unusually high speeds moving through the Milky Way. These stars, as it turned out, were unbound objects that had been kicked out of the Milky Way and periodically…

Scientists are increasingly focused on understanding the solar chromosphere, a region of the Sun’s atmosphere for which diagnostic tools remain limited compared to other layers. Dufresne from DAMTP, University of Cambridge, Osborne from SUPA…