Hobbies can fuel people's careers, research shows

Pursuing a hobby in an intense or serious way can boost people’s confidence at work—but only…

Literature sheds light on the history and mystery of the Southern Ocean

If you look at a globe, you’ll see that the Southern Hemisphere is bluer than the…

This microbe is spreading antibiotic resistance to other bacteria

Antibiotic resistance is spreading fast all over the world. When infectious bacteria mutate in a certain…

Computer model helps make sense of human memory

Brains are a mazy network of overlapping circuits—some pathways encourage activity while others suppress it. While…

The last mammoths died on a remote island

The last woolly mammoths lived on Wrangel Island in the Arctic Ocean; they died out 4,000…

Microbial life might drift in the atmospheres of failed stars

Brown dwarfs are too large to be planets and too small to be stars, but they…

FDA approves Pfenex's osteoporosis therapy

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Monday approved a bone-building drug from Pfenex Inc to…

How cells sense oxygen wins Nobel prize

British scientist Sir Peter Ratcliffe shares the 2019 Nobel Prize for physiology or medicine. …

More energy means more effects—in proton collisions

The higher the collision energy of particles, the more interesting the physics. Scientists from the Institute…

Video: Steering Hera

Spain’s Xataka TV visits GMV in Madrid, where the company is testing the navigation software that…