Category: 7. Science

For decades, neuroscientists have debated whether synaptic vesicles “kiss-and-run” or do an irreversible “full collapse” when releasing neurotransmitters. Now, a team in China…

When biomedical researchers need to test their latest ideas, they often turn to engineered human tissue that mimics the responses in our own bodies. It’s become an important intermediary step before human clinical trials.

One…

Two Russian cosmonauts are back inside the International Space Station after conducting a spacewalk to install a semiconductor materials experiment, as well as retrieve and jettison a no-longer-needed camera from the exterior of the orbiting…

A natural cooling mechanism has been shielding the world’s mountain glaciers from increasingly warm summer melt seasons, but new research by an international science team says the protective process will break down by mid-century.

Glaciers at…

Three enormous and peculiar radio light rings were discovered far, far outside our own galaxy, shedding more light on one of the enigmas that have long perplexed astronomers.

The find was reported by the RAD@home Astronomy Collaboratory — a…

The Northern Lights (Aurora Borealis) are seen over the American flags in a cemetery in Wadsworth, Ohio Friday May, 10, 2024. Photo by Aaron Josefczyk/UPI | License Photo

Oct. 16 (UPI) — The Aurora Borealis, typically only seen in the farthest…