Meteorites plus gamma rays could have given Earth the building blocks for life

Even as detailed images of distant galaxies from the James Webb Space Telescope show us more…

Built to last: The perovskite solar cells tough enough to match mighty silicon

Researchers have demonstrated a new way to create stable perovskite solar cells, with fewer defects and…

Meet Squeegee: A new contamination detection tool for low microbial biomass microbiomes

One of the major challenges in microbiome science has been distinguishing what is a potential environmental…

Jawbone may represent earliest presence of humans in Europe

For over a century, one of the earliest human fossils ever discovered in Spain has been…

Fresh understanding of ice age frequency

A chance find of an unstudied Antarctic sediment core has led researchers to flip our understanding…

Long-range information transport in antiferromagnets

Physicists have developed a completely new class of materials for transporting spin waves: antiferromagnets with tilted…

Warming climate spurs harmful oxygen loss in lakes

New research shows a continually warming world is leading to extended, late-summer weeks of water stratification…

Rotten meat could be easier to detect thanks to a new biosensor system

The supply chain that brings meat to market worldwide is highly complex and usually very efficient.…

Itchy eyes and a runny nose? It could be climate change

Researchers have simulated how climate change will affect the distribution of two leading allergens — oak…

How neurons regulate their excitability autonomously

Nerve cells can regulate their sensitivity to incoming signals autonomously. A new study has now discovered…