Aloe vera peels could fight staple food crop pests

The discarded peels of aloe vera can be used as a natural pesticide, helping farmers protect…

What would an ancient Egyptian corpse have smelled like? Pine, balsam and bitumen, if you were nobility

In 1900—some 22 years before he discovered the tomb of Tutankhamen—British archaeologist Howard Carter opened another…

AI 'nose' predicts smells from molecular structures

In a major breakthrough, scientists have built a tool to predict the odor profile of a…

Saturday Citations: Ancient corvids, tetraquarks, and researchers who aren't bored hearing about your dreams

This week, researchers reported on two-dimensional gold sheets, a tidy little meson made of four quarks…

HL-LHC magnet alignment system passes crucial tests

The many CERN-developed sensors and software programs of the FRAS (Full Remote Alignment System) have been…

Patrolling honey bees expose spread of antimicrobial resistance

Bees could become biomonitors, checking their neighborhoods to determine how far antimicrobial resistance (AMR) has spread,…

Typhoon Saola weakens to a severe storm as it tracks along southern China

Typhoon Saola swept across southern China on Saturday after tearing down trees and smashing windows in…

From the moon to the sun: India launches next space mission

The latest mission in India’s ambitious space program blasted off Saturday on a voyage towards the…

New scalable, etching-based technique for precise tuning of microdisk lasers

Micro- and nanodisk lasers have recently emerged as promising optical sources and probes for various applications…

India launches spacecraft to study the sun after successful landing near the moon's south pole

India launched its first space mission to study the sun on Saturday, less than two weeks…