Category: 7. Science

Humans carry around a busy community of microbes that help run daily life. This microbiome breaks down food, trains the immune system, and competes with germs.

Scientists just spotted something unexpected inside those communities: tiny circular

Scientists at Indiana University have achieved a breakthrough in understanding the universe thanks to a collaboration between two major international experiments studying neutrinos, which are ubiquitous, tiny particles that stream…

Brains run on timing. A fraction of a second can decide whether one message arrives before another and changes what a circuit does. Signals travel along axons – the thin extensions of brain cells (neurons) that act like wires.

Textbooks have…

Using NASA’s planet-hunting spacecraft TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite), astronomers have discovered three Earth-size worlds orbiting around twin stars.

It has previously been theorized that binary systems are hostile to the formation…

With the milestone just days away, you are likely to hear this week that there has now been a continuous human presence on the International Space Station (ISS) for the past 25 years. But…

Every day, millions of people are discharged after extended hospital stays, but matching these patients with appropriate care facilities can be arduous, often reliant on months-old, inaccurate data.

Now, a text message-based,…