Sugar Shields Versus A Hostile Microenvironment
You might think of cancer as a mass of rogue cells that grow uncontrollably. But cancer is more organized and strategic than that. Rather, cancer is a tightly controlled cellular neighborhood that...
Genetics & Molecular Biology
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Evolution
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You Laugh Like An Ape
All living great apes laugh, and of course humans do as well.
Microbiology
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Why Raw Dairy Farms In California Accelerated The H5N1 Bird Flu Pandemic
Californis is the largest dairy producer in the United States. It is also the most anti-science state, distrustful of the modern world. That is why coastal cities had measles parties until the...
Ecology & Zoology
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Ground-Nesting Bee Populations Don't Get Publicity But They're Everywhere
Honeybees get attention in environmental fundraising campaigns because people don't understand pollination.(1)
Immunology
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RFK Jr Is Wrong About MRNA Vaccines - They Make COVID-19 Less Deadly
US health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr has announced he is cancelling US$500 million (£374 million) of research into mRNA vaccines, citing unproven concerns about their safety and long-term...
Neuroscience
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AI And Brain: A New Gold-Open-Access Journal
Am thrilled to report here that Scilight just launched a new gold open-access journal, "AI and Brain", of which I am the editor in chief. Below you can see the front page of a leaflet I will soon be...
UNH: Pavement sealcoat a source of toxins in stormwater runoff
DURHAM, N.H. – Driveways and parking lots may look better with a layer of sealcoat applied to the pavement, but the water running off the surface into nearby streams will be carrying more than just…
Study compares sound from exploding volcanoes with jet engines
New research on infrasound from volcanic eruptions shows an unexpected connection with jet engines. Researchers at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego speeded up the recorded sounds…
Did a nickel famine trigger the 'Great Oxidation Event'?
Washington, D.C.— The Earth's original atmosphere held very little oxygen. This began to change around 2.4 billion years ago when oxygen levels increased dramatically during what scientists call the…
Impact of floods on soils
MADISON, WI, APRIL 7, 2009 -- A recent study conducted in the Midwestern United States examined the effects of harsh wet conditions on both cultivated and uncultivated soils, vastly advancing the…
Climate change to spur rapid shifts in wildfire hotspots
Berkeley — Climate change will bring about major shifts in worldwide fire patterns, and those changes are coming fast, according to a first-of-its-kind analysis led by researchers at the University…
Tiny super-plant can clean up animal waste and be used for ethanol production
Researchers at North Carolina State University have found that a tiny aquatic plant can be used to clean up animal waste at industrial hog farms and potentially be part of the answer for the global…
Titan may have subsurface ocean of hydrocarbons, says Stanford researcher
Saturn's largest moon, Titan, may have a subterranean ocean of hydrocarbons and some topsy-turvy topography in which the summits of its mountains lie lower than its average surface elevation,…
Weizmann Institute scientists develop a unique approach for splitting water into hydrogen and oxygen
The design of efficient systems for splitting water into hydrogen and oxygen, driven by sunlight is among the most important challenges facing science today, underpinning the long term potential of…
Robot scientist becomes first machine to discover new scientific knowledge
Scientists funded by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) have created a Robot Scientist which the researchers believe is the first machine to have independently…
Bent tectonics: How Hawaii was bumped off
More than 80 undersea volcanoes and a multitude of islands are dotted along the Hawaii-Emperor seamount chain like pearls on a necklace. A sharp bend in the middle is the only blemish. The long-…
