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Here’s how tardigrades go into suspended animation

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​science news​​​ By Tina Hesman Saey Researchers have discovered a molecular sensor that tells tardigrades it’s time to toughen up. The tiny eight-legged animals, also known as water bears or moss →

How ancient herders rewrote northern Europeans’ genetic story

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​science news​​​ By Bruce Bower Ancient herders, who rode horses and drove ox-drawn carts west out of their grassy homelands in southwest Asia, erased a DNA divide between far-flung farmers and →

An ancient, massive urban complex has been found in the Ecuadorian Amazon

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science news By Amanda Heidt Scientists have uncovered the Amazon’s earliest and largest example of farm-based citylike settlements high in the foothills of the Ecuadorian Andes. The thousands of →

A fiber inspired by polar bears traps heat as well as down feathers do

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science news By Jude Coleman The Arctic’s extreme cold is no match for a polar bear’s super-insulating fur. Humans could one day benefit from a similar material, thanks to a new fiber that mimics the →

The strongest known fast radio burst has been traced to a 7-galaxy pileup

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​science news​​​ By Adam Mann NEW ORLEANS — A mind-bogglingly strong spurt of electromagnetic energy has for the first time been traced back to a cluster of seven merging galaxies. The finding could →

How we discovered that Uranus and Neptune are actually nearly identical in colour

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​conversation​​​ In many images of the two outer gas giants of the Solar System, Neptune typically looks rich blue while Uranus comes across as pale green. But now our new study, published in Monthly →

Scientists Shocked to Discover That Male and Female Athletes are Different!

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​american thinker​​​ By Brian C. Joondeph, M.D. It was once a commonsense belief and universal truth that men and women, boys and girls, are different, especially in the realm of athletics. With rare →

Six space missions to look forward to in 2024

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​conversation​​​ It’s going to be a bumper time for space missions in 2024 – especially to the Moon, our nearest neighbour. And that’s following on from an already epic 2023. I’m a laboratory →

Quantum computers could break the internet. Here’s how to save it

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science news By Emily Conover Keeping secrets is hard. Kids know it. Celebrities know it. National security experts know it, too. And it’s about to get even harder. There’s always someone who wants →

Reindeer can sleep while they chew

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​science news​​​ By Laura Sanders In this busy holiday season, many of us multitask. Arctic reindeer are no exception. Reindeer can eat and sleep at the same time, a new study suggests. This →

These scientific discoveries set new records in 2023

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science news ​science news​​​ By Maria Temming In 2023, researchers made plenty of discoveries for the record books — and the history books. This year’s scientific superlatives shed new light on our →

Shooting the way to fusion energy

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​asia times​​​ by Jonathan Tennenbaum In my discussion (published starting here) with Paul Methven, head of Britain’s STEP program to build a first electricity-producing fusion power plant, Methven →

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