A theory developed with the late Professor Stephen Hawking stating that the universe is more simple…
Month: May 2018
New York Times gains 139,000 subscribers in Q1
The New York Times—dismissed as a "failing" newspaper by US President Donald Trump—had a net gain…
Q&A: Cambridge Analytica’s bankruptcy won’t halt probes
The company at the center of the Facebook privacy scandal, political consultancy Cambridge Analytica, is going…
New study sheds light (and some shade) on anole diversification
The islands of Puerto Rico, Cuba, Hispaniola, and Jamaica—collectively known as the Greater Antilles—are home to…
Tangled Up in Blue
The lone active region visible on our Sun put on a fine display with its tangled…
Bacterial toxins wreak havoc by crippling cellular infrastructure
Bacterial toxins can wreak mass havoc within cells by shutting down multiple essential functions at once,…
Surviving the Inferno of Entry, Descent and Landing
Anticipation is building as preparations are well underway for the launch of NASA’s next Mars mission,…
Chemical engineers discover how to control knots that form in DNA molecules
Just like any long polymer chain, DNA tends to form knots. Using technology that allows them…
Antimatter study to benefit from recipe for ten-fold spatial compression of plasma
An international team of physicists studying antimatter have now derived an improved way of spatially compressing…
‘Digital snapshots’ reveal the protein landscape of mitochondrial quality control
Almost every cell in the human body, from beating heart cells to bacteria-gobbling immune cells, is…