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A study in mice hints at a new way to treat spinal cord injuries

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​science news​​​ By  Laura Sanders     After a devastating spinal cord injury, mice’s nerve cells balloon up in size. Some of these neurons stay swollen longer than expected →

Physicists just discovered the rarest particle decay ever

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​science news​​​ By Emily Conover     It’s the rarest particle decay ever discovered. Scientists have clinched the case for a special type of decay of subatomic particles called →

X-rays from nuclear blasts could defend Earth from asteroids

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science news​​​​ By Nikk Ogasa     An asteroid hurtling toward Earth could be deflected without a spacecraft ever touching it.     The trick is using X-rays to →

Scientists have just turned giant panda skin cells into stem cells

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​science news​​​ By Jason Bittel     With roughly 2,000 giant pandas remaining in the wild, scientists have spent the last several decades looking for new ways to help the iconic →

Earth’s ancient ‘greenhouse’ conditions were hotter than thought

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science news By Carolyn Gramling     Over the last 485 million years, Earth has been both a lot colder and a lot hotter than once thought.    A new temperature →

The Large Hadron Collider exposes quarks’ quantum entanglement

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science news By Emily Conover     Quantum entanglement has made its way to the top.     Scientists have measured the strange quantum phenomenon of entanglement →

How to spot tiny black holes that might pass through the solar system

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​science news​​​ By  Emily Conover     Black holes about the size of a hydrogen atom could be careening through the solar system unnoticed. But their days of stealth may be →

Two or three cups of coffee a day is linked to a lower risk of heart and metabolic disease

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nbc news By Kaitlin Sullivan     There are certain studies that coffee lovers, well, love.     This is one of them: Drinking several cups of caffeinated coffee →

Pregnancy overhauls the brain. Here’s what that looks like

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science news By Laura Sanders     Pregnancy overhauls a woman’s body. The brain is no exception.     A detailed study of a woman’s brain before, during and →

Can taking ashwagandha supplements improve health?

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​science news​​​ By  Sean Cummings     Practitioners of Ayurveda — a traditional Indian medicine system — have used the ashwagandha plant for thousands of years. These days, →

Can solar farms and crop farms coexist?

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​science news​​​     By Luke Groskin Transcript     James McCall: Solar production in the US really started to pick up around 2012. As solar really became →

Ancient DNA unveils a previously unknown line of Neandertals

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​science news​​​ By Bruce Bower     Neandertals traveled at least two evolutionary paths on their way to extinction around 40,000 years ago, a new study suggests. →

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