By The Scientist | | 9/3/2024 11:30 AM

In this webinar, Sarkis Mazmanian and Gautam Dantas will discuss how researchers study the roles that endogenous gut microbes play in influencing the body’s response to neural injury and disease. ... Read full Story

By LIVE SCIENCE | | 9/3/2024 11:20 AM

The average number of visible dark patches on the sun's surface in August was higher than any other month since September 2001. The final count was also more than twice as high as experts initially predicted it would be, demonstrating once again that the current solar maximum will be much more active than expected. ... Read full Story

By Scientific American | | 9/3/2024 9:00 AM

One person’s reality is purely theirs and often unique ... Read full Story

By LIVE SCIENCE | | 9/3/2024 9:00 AM

The Aviron Strong Series Rower makes rowing fun, but can this beast of a machine keep us coming back for more? ... Read full Story

By Scientific American | | 9/3/2024 8:00 AM

The Federal Trade Commission is studying how companies use consumer data to charge different prices for the same product ... Read full Story

By LIVE SCIENCE | | 9/3/2024 7:30 AM

IQM's quantum processor achieved 99.9% fidelity in recent tests, the company says. Here's what that actually means. ... Read full Story

By Scientific American | | 9/3/2024 7:00 AM

Clean indoor air protects against diseases such as COVID and flu, but we’re not doing enough to ensure it ... Read full Story

By Scientific American | | 9/3/2024 6:45 AM

The octopus sex chromosome appears to have been maintained over hundreds of millions of years, making it the most ancient of such chromosomes in animals ... Read full Story

By LIVE SCIENCE | | 9/3/2024 3:00 AM

A 2012 satellite photo captured an unusual "double rainbow" glory appearing next to an unconnected chain of rare vortices in the clouds above Mexico's Guadalupe Island. ... Read full Story

By The Scientist | | 9/3/2024 12:00 AM

Ever since its discovery in the 1900s, the production of a potent vaccine adjuvant relied on the Chilean soapbark tree. Now, yeast can make the molecule. ... Read full Story

By LIVE SCIENCE | | 9/3/2024 12:00 AM

A pregnant porbeagle shark is believed to have been eaten by a great white, with the larger predator swallowing its tracking device off the coast of Bermuda, scientists report. ... Read full Story

By LIVE SCIENCE | sascha.pare@futurenet.com (Sascha Pare) | 9/2/2024 11:00 AM

Geologists have known for decades that gold forms in quartz with the help of earthquakes, but now they have worked out exactly how the setting and seismic waves combine to form large nuggets. ... Read full Story

By Scientific American | | 9/2/2024 11:00 AM

Scientists propose that large chunks of gold could form from earthquakes’ pressure ... Read full Story

By LIVE SCIENCE | | 9/2/2024 8:00 AM

Saturn will enter opposition on Sept. 7 and 8, orbiting on the opposite side of Earth as the sun. Here's everything you need to know to spot Saturn at its peak size and brightness this week. ... Read full Story

By LIVE SCIENCE | | 9/2/2024 7:00 AM

The battery storage system will be able to store 8,500 megawatt-hours of energy — which is 130 million times the capacity of the best laptops today. ... Read full Story

By Scientific American | | 9/2/2024 7:00 AM

The “Raygun” Olympics fiasco points to how hip-hop scholarship is at risk of being colonized and undermined in academia ... Read full Story

By Scientific American | | 9/2/2024 6:45 AM

AI and tiny worms team up to get to treats ... Read full Story

By LIVE SCIENCE | | 9/2/2024 6:00 AM

'The bottom line is, there is no crisis in terms of the standard model of cosmology. ... Read full Story

By LIVE SCIENCE | | 9/2/2024 5:00 AM

Drinking can change the brain in a way that makes people more likely to speak their mind, but the effects aren't always straightforward. ... Read full Story

By The Scientist | | 9/2/2024 12:01 AM

Long believed to be purely vestigial, this troublesome organ may play an important role in gut and immune function. ... Read full Story