Category: 7. Science

Molecules too few and far between for standard cryo-EM

Cryo-EM suspends purified and concentrated molecules in a super thin layer of water on a metal mesh grid that is frozen so fast in liquid nitrogen that it resembles glass because…

Molecules too few and far between for standard cryo-EM

Cryo-EM suspends purified and concentrated molecules in a super thin layer of water on a metal mesh grid that is frozen so fast in liquid nitrogen that it resembles glass because…

A team of Egyptian palaeontologists has discovered a new species of ancient crocodile in Egypt’s Western Desert that lived around 80 million years ago — a find that is reshaping scientists’ understanding of crocodile evolution.

The…

Get ready, aurora chasers: The northern lights may put on a good show across parts of the U.S. tonight as a high-speed solar wind stream is forecast to slam into Earth’s magnetic field.

Forecasters at NOAA’s Space Weather Prediction Center (SWPC)…

Around 250 million years ago, as life was clawing its way back from Earth’s greatest mass extinction, some reptiles began to experiment with a new way of moving. 

Instead of sprawling with limbs splayed to the side like lizards, they started…