Science & Technology

A new study published in Nature Communications uses brain scans to understand how we experience and remember our daily surroundings.

New transistor technology boosts the body’s electrochemical signals by 1,000 times, enabling diagnostic and disease-monitoring implants.

For the first time, researchers have pinpointed a date when elite Mongol Empire people were drinking yak milk, according to a new study.

For tiny salamanders squirming skin-to-soil, big-picture weather patterns may seem as far away as outer space. But for decades, scientists have mostly relied on free-air temperature data at large spatial scales to predict future salamander distribution…

Researchers have succeeded in developing an E. coli-based ‘smart microbe’ that secretes therapeutic payloads, including antibodies, into the gut. The genetically modified beneficial strain of bacteria blocks intestinal inflammation in a preclinical mod…

Engineering researchers have developed a novel way to capture carbon dioxide from the air and store it in the ‘infinite sink’ of the ocean. The approach uses an innovative copper-containing polymeric filter and essentially converts CO2 into sodium bica…

Scientists say their study could shed light on stress-related mental illnesses but that more research is needed.

In the early 2000s, scientists observed lightning discharge producing X-rays comprising high energy photons — the same type used for medical imaging. Researchers could recreate this phenomenon in the lab, but they could not fully explain how and why l…

New research reveals that mutations in the stem of the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein led to the virus becoming progressively tighter over time, which may have improved the virus’s ability to transmit through nasal droplets and infect host cells once in the …

Today, ants are pretty much everywhere. To learn more about how these insects conquered the world, scientists used a combination of fossils, DNA, and data on the habitat preferences of modern species to piece together how ants and plants have been evol…

There are approximately 30 trillion cells in a human body and our health is predicated on them properly interacting with and supporting each other, with the immune system playing a particularly pivotal role. One of the defining characteristics of aging…

End-of-dry-season CO2 pulses recur each year in the atmosphere above the Australian continent, a discovery made by an international research team led by an environmental physicist. To investigate the carbon fluxes over Australia, the researchers studie…