Category: 7. Science

It would be an understatement to say that the Earth’s magnetic field is important. It’s one of the reasons we’re able to live on this rock tumbling through space, and it also gives us the gorgeous aurora borealis. So it’s a pretty big deal when…

As night falls on October evenings, glance toward the southeast horizon. If there is one star that serves to announce the arrival of fall as the leaves have begun to turn, unquestionably that title would have to go to the brightest star within…

Lipid nanoparticles (LNPs) are the delivery vehicles of modern medicine, carrying cancer drugs, gene therapies and vaccines into cells. Until recently, many scientists assumed that all LNPs followed more or less the same blueprint,…

According to a…

Ferroptosis: Introduction to the Non-Apoptotic Form of Regulated Cell Death

First identified and characterised in 2012, ferroptosis is a distinct, regulated form of non-apoptotic cell death marked by iron-dependent accumulation of reactive…

NASA created a haunting audio clip of sound waves rippling out of a supermassive black hole, located 250 million light-years away.

The black hole is at the center of the Perseus cluster of galaxies, and the acoustic waves coming from it have…

Named for the pioneering astrophysicist Vera C. Rubin, whose work confirmed the existence of dark matter, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory stands as one of the most ambitious ground-based telescopes ever built.

Rubin’s mission is to survey the…

NASA created a haunting audio clip of sound waves rippling out of a supermassive black hole, located 250 million light-years away.

The black hole is at the center of the Perseus cluster of galaxies, and the acoustic waves coming from it have been…