[ad_1] Researchers with the U.S. military’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) have successfully used Earth’s atmosphere as a sensor to detect a distant disturbance. DARPA’s AtmoSense program aims to study how sound waves or electromagnetic frequencies travel through Earth’s atmosphere, and to find ways to use these waves as a “global sensor” to detect…
[ad_1] Older adults with ADHD are at higher risk of age-related dementias like Alzheimer’s disease, and an international team of neuroscientists has found a lead on why this might be the case. Led by medical physicist Jatta Berberat from the University of Geneva, the team has discovered that iron is distributed similarly in the brains…
[ad_1] NIH Director Removes Four Main Scientists amid Massive Staff Purge The Trump Administration has fired four leaders and thousands of employees at the National Institutes of Health in “one of the darkest days” By Max Kozlov & Nature magazine Jay Bhattacharya took office as director of the US National Institutes of Health on April…
[ad_1] We all know the story: give every chimpanzee on the planet a typewriter and wait until something monumental occurs, either the recreation of the complete works of William Shakespeare or the heat death of the universe. Last year, mathematicians concluded the chimps would never achieve the former – the likelihood of one typing even…
[ad_1] While volcanoes have brought profound changes to landscapes here on Earth, volcanic activity on other planets and moons has followed a different path. It’s easy to imagine space volcanoes as even more ferocious and devastating versions of the ones scattered across Earth, but in reality, most of them have fallen into dormancy. Volcanic features…
[ad_1] You know how the James Webb Space Telescope is said to be revolutionizing astronomy because it can study wavelengths hidden to human eyes? Well, those wavelengths lie in the infrared region of the electromagnetic spectrum — and on April 1, NASA announced its brand new infrared space telescope, SPHEREx, has officially opened its eyes…
[ad_1] Around 98 percent of lignin created as a forestry by-product from plants is discarded, but a new enzyme could be the key to extracting high-value molecules from this waste using a green chemistry approach.These molecules are the building blocks for compounds like fragrances, flavourings, fuels and therapeutics, turning a waste stream into a valuable…
[ad_1] NASA funding cuts are already affecting research and educational programs across the US DCStockPhotography/Shutterstock NASA has cancelled contracts and grants worth up to $420 million, following guidance from the Trump administration’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). The cuts will impact research projects and educational programmes across the US, but NASA is being tight-lipped about…
[ad_1] In January 2025, researchers on the Schmidt Ocean Institute’s R/V Falkor (too) had to divert their plans after an iceberg roughly the size of Chicago broke away from the George VI Ice Shelf, a floating glacier that had been attached to the Antarctic Peninsula ice sheet. As the iceberg broke away, it exposed an…
[ad_1] NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore both say they’d ride on Boeing’s Starliner again, despite the issues the capsule had on its first crewed flight. Wilmore and Williams launched to the ISS on Starliner’s first astronaut mission, known as Crew Flight Test (CFT), last June. Problems with the spacecraft’s thrusters prompted NASA and…