Новости за 02.05.2024

Ewen Callaway, Nature

When Paul Zimmer-Harwood volunteered to be intentionally infected with SARS-CoV-2, he wasn't sure what to expect. He was ready for a repeat of his first brush with...

Paul Sutter, Live Science

Earth's moon plays a significant role in our culture, language and thoughts. But does it … you know … matter?

Jeremy Miller, Sonian

The forest ranger had a troubled look on his face. It was the summer of 2022 and my kids and I were trudging up a steep trail in the Indian Peaks Wilderness, near...

Passant Rabie, Gizmodo

After more than a decade of delays and failures, Boeing is finally ready to launch its first crew of NASA astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS). Liftoff...

Jeff Caruso, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

In a 2012 essay for Aeon, physicist David Deutsch...

Rachel Ehrenberg, Knowable Magazine

Nearly 9,000 years ago, around the time that humans were first domesticating corn and pigs, some people in China were taming fungi.

Allison Marsh, IEEE Spectrum

In 1912,

Editorial, Nature

This week, Nature is launching a

Ryan Wilkinson, Physics

Gravity might be the most familiar of the four fundamental forces, but it is by far the weakest. This feebleness has prevented researchers from exploring the...

Smriti Mallapaty, Nature

Surgeons in Japan have transplanted kidney tissue from one rat fetus to another, while the recipient was still in its mother's womb. Study lead Takashi Yokoo, a...

Ross Pomeroy, RealClearScience

Since the dawn of the 20th century, humanity has experienced a rise in life expectancy unparalleled over our species' 300,000-year history. In 1900, a newborn...

Wolf & Lenharo, Nature

Republicans in the US House of Representatives publicly grilled infectious disease specialist Peter Daszak today during a long-awaited hearing on Capitol Hill. In...

Duke University

Duke researchers have opened a new avenue in the attack against influenza viruses by creating a vaccine that encourages the immune system to target a portion of the virus...

Los Alamos Nat'l Lab

A research team using the ChemCam instrument onboard NASA's Curiosity rover discovered higher-than-usual amounts of manganese in lakebed rocks within Gale Crater on...

University of Waterloo

A group of researchers at the University of Waterloo and the University of British Columbia have discovered a potential "cosmic glitch" in the universe's gravity,...

EurekAlert!

A new Netflix documentary has recreated the face of a 75,000-year-old female Neanderthal whose flattened skull was discovered and rebuilt from hundreds of bone fragments by a...