‘I opened a bottle with Stephen Hawking to celebrate our eureka moment’ – Prof. Thomas Hertog

A theory developed with the late Professor Stephen Hawking stating that the universe is more simple…

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…