To save nature, focus on populations, not species

Human-released greenhouse gasses are causing the world to warm, and with that warming comes increasing stress for many of the planet’s plants and animals. That stress is so great that many scientists believe we are currently in the midst of the ‘sixth …

Where did Omicron come from?

First discovered a year ago in South Africa, the SARS-CoV-2 variant later dubbed ‘Omicron’ spread across the globe at incredible speed. It is still unclear exactly how, when and where this virus originated. A new study shows that Omicron’s predecessors…

An exotic interplay of electrons

Water that simply will not freeze, no matter how cold it gets — a research group has discovered a quantum state that could be described in this way. Experts have managed to cool a special material to near absolute zero temperature. They found that a c…