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When two male mice meet in a confined space, the rules of engagement are clear: The lower ranking mouse must yield. But when these norms go out the window—say, when researchers rig such an encounter to favor the weakling—it sends…
Decades of research have shown that focusing on housing, without making sobriety or mental health treatment a prerequisite, is the most effective way to reduce homelessness Society | Comment 26 January 2023 By Maia Szalavitz Many US cities have been…
By the time premature babies reach 14 to 19 years of age, they have, on average, a similar body mass index to peers born at term, according to an analysis of more than 250,000 people Health 26 January 2023 By…
Rock weathering has helped keep Earth’s climate relatively stable for millions of years, but the process isn’t fast enough to keep up with human carbon emissions Earth 26 January 2023 By Jason Arunn Murugesu Karst mountains in Guilin, China, formed…
Smaller melanoma skin cancer cells may be more vulnerable to drugs that block DNA repair, while larger cells might be more responsive to immunotherapy Health 26 January 2023 By Christa Lesté-Lasserre Cancer cells of different sizes Professor Chris Bakal, The…
An AI was tasked with creating proteins with anti-microbial properties. Researchers then created a subset of the proteins and found some did the job Technology 26 January 2023 By Karmela Padavic-Callaghan Proteins are made of chains of amino acids CHRISTOPH…
Other intelligent civilisations may send transmissions after a bright galactic event like a supernova to make them more visible to others, according to SETI researchers Space 26 January 2023 By Jonathan O’Callaghan Supernova SN 1987A (just to the right of…
The planet 8 Ursae Minoris b should have been destroyed when its star became a red giant, but it continues to orbit strangely close to the star Space 26 January 2023 By Jonathan O’Callaghan The exoplanet 8 Ursae Minoris b…
As the fight against COVID-19 wears on and the virus continues to mutate, vaccines and several monoclonal antibody drugs are losing some of their punch. That’s added urgency to a strategy for preventing and treating the disease that, in theory,…
Many Iranian scientists are dismayed about last week’s appointment of a hardline conservative cleric as the new secretary of the Supreme Council of the Cultural Revolution (SCCR), a body with considerable power over science, academic life, and culture in Iran.…
