Category: 7. Science

Scientists at The James Hutton Institute, working with partners from the University of York and the Université Libre de Bruxelles, have uncovered how one of the world’s most destructive plant diseases evades crop defences — a…

By Tommaso M. Milani

Abstract

The main argument of this article is that Linguistic Landscape (LL) scholarship has largely ignored – erased even – gender and sexuality, two important axes of power along which public spaces…

For a long-term plan to support human life on the Moon and Mars, scientists have outlined a roadmap for using plants, utilizing technologies that could also transform sustainable food production on Earth.

Forty scientists from multiple countries…

by Simon Mansfield

Gerroa, Australia (SPX) Nov 28, 2025

As AI models are accused of stealing the world’s creativity, a deeper view emerges: life, culture – and now machines – all run on ceaseless pattern-copying, much like an…

Scientists have uncovered fresh evidence that tiny grains of cosmic dust could be essential for building the molecules that eventually lead to life. The international team behind the discovery says dust may act as an active chemical catalyst in…

Programmable Artificial Cell Membranes Controlled by a Catalytic Chemical Reaction

Biological membranes are fundamental structures that form boundaries of all living cells, controlling how cells communicate, grow, and respond to their…

New research from…

Russia’s Roscosmos space agency reported on Nov. 27 that the launch pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan sustained damage during the Soyuz MS-28 liftoff to the International Space Station.

Although the spacecraft carrying two Russian…

A new study shows that plastic slowly degrades on ocean surfaces, lingering for over a century after they were placed there.

What’s happening?

Researchers from Queen Mary University of London have published a new study showing that plastic…