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Superconductor research surges forward despite controversy over stunning claims

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science news By Emily Conover With his bold claims of revolutionary room-temperature superconductors, physicist Ranga Dias of the University of Rochester in New York propelled the field of →

How thunderstorms can spawn damaging ‘downbursts’

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science news By Skyler Ware In July, a fierce thunderstorm raged through Washington, D.C., damaging homes, felling trees, producing blinding rain and leaving thousands without power. The storm was →

After the crash comes Hera: ESA spacecraft for planetary defence arrives in the Netherlands

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​brussels times​​​ By Margherita Bassi "This is an emotional moment for our team; it has taken three years of hard work to reach this point," said lead system engineer Paolo Martino. Transportation →

Biological clocks: how does our body know that time goes by?

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​conversation​​​ The circadian clock mechanism was first discovered in the fruit fly, also known as Drosophila, in the 1970s. It is based on feedback loops in the transcription and translation of →

A classical lullaby helped reduce newborns’ pain during heel pricks

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​science news​​​ By Aimee Cunningham The soothing tones of a classical lullaby may help to relieve the pain newborns can feel from routine medical procedures. The mellifluous method could be a →

India launches rocket to observe sun days after historic moon landing

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al jazeera India has launched a rocket to study the sun, a little over a week after its successful unmanned landing on the moon. The Aditya-L1 rocket, carrying scientific instruments to observe the →

Arctic sea ice may melt faster in coming years due to shifting winds

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​science news​​​ By Carolyn Gramling A flip-flopping, yearslong pattern of winds helps control the fate of the Arctic’s sea ice — by regulating how much of the Atlantic Ocean’s relatively warm, salty →

The weight-loss drug Wegovy may also help treat addiction

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​science news​​​ By Laura Sanders A class of powerful drugs can dramatically change people’s body weight. But one of the drugs’ most alluring jobs may happen in a spot that’s harder to see: the →

Mexican virologist Susana López Charretón uncovered rotaviruses’ secrets

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​science news​​​ By Inés Gutiérrez Jaber Susana López Charretón is among Mexico’s leading virologists. She has been awarded the UNESCO–Carlos J. Finlay Prize for Microbiology and the L’Oréal-UNESCO →

The Y chromosome’s genetic puzzle is finally complete

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science news By Tina Hesman Saey The human Y chromosome, responsible for determining male sex, finally has gotten an end-to-end examination. Researchers sequenced the chromosome, which contains many →

Scientists find the last remnants of the human genome that were missing in the Y chromosome

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​the conversation​​​ More than 20 years ago, the human genome was first sequenced. While the first version was full of “holes” representing missing DNA sequences, the genome has been gradually →

India’s successful moon landing follows recent failures by other countries

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science news By Katherine Kornei Space is hard, as the saying goes. As humans have endeavored to launch themselves and their machines beyond Earth, that maxim has been proven again and again. Recent →

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