Taking one for the team: How bacteria self-destruct to fight viral infections

Researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine have discovered how a new immune…

What happens to deferred intentions in the brain?

Placing a checkmark on the to-do list is an extremely liberating feeling for many eager list…

Plant physiology: One size may not suit all

A new study demonstrates that there are no simple or universal solutions to the problem of…

New function for potential tumor suppressor in brain development

The gene Cdkn1c could have been considered an open-and-shut case: Mice in which the gene is…

NASA’s Newest Astronauts Ready for Space Station, Moon, and Mars Missions

NASA welcomed 11 new astronauts to its ranks Friday, increasing the number of those eligible for…

Canada’s newest astronauts complete basic training

Today, Canadian Space Agency astronauts Jenni Sidey-Gibbons and Joshua Kutryk celebrated the end of their basic…

Stellar black holes: When David poses as Goliath

Stellar black holes form when massive stars end their life in a dramatic collapse. Observations have…

Water governance: could less sometimes be more?

Researchers from UNIGE and UNIL analysed water governance in six European countries from 1750 onwards. They…

New approach for controlling qubits via microwave pulses reduces error rates and increases efficiency

A functional quantum computer is one of the most intriguing promises of quantum technology. With significantly…

First sighting of hot gas sloshing in galaxy cluster

ESA’s XMM-Newton X-ray observatory has spied hot gas sloshing around within a galaxy cluster—a never-before-seen behaviour…