International team of researchers reveals for the first time a mechanism to explain pronounced climate variability during the last ice age. Although humankind is responsible for the current global climate…
The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory’s Melanized Microbes for Multiple Uses in Space Project, or MELSP, will use the International Space Station (ISS) to search for production of melanin variants and…
Smartbax nominated for Falling Walls award. It all began with basic research: While conducting laboratory experiments, a team at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) came across an active agent…
Finding the best material to make solar cells is a colossal task, but a research team at Osaka University has been using robotic systems and AI to make the search…
Exquisite, never-before-seen details help unravel the supernova remnant’s puzzling history. NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has gazed at the Crab Nebula, a supernova remnant located 6,500 light-years away in the…
The effect of the phenotypic plasticity of cancer cells and how to exploit it. Cancer cells are notorious for rapidly changing their phenotype, driving within-host spread and evading treatment. Scientists…