Articles of interest from across the scientific community.
Has this tardigrade been quantum entangled, or just seriously chilled? The field is split, but in either case: poor little poppet! …
Could primordial black holes be at the root of dark matter? The forthcoming James Webb Space Telescope is expected to find the answer …
Once abundant, most Martian water dried up long ago. But a large reservoir of ice has been found beneath the massive canyon Valles Marineris …
2021 was characterized by the vaccine against COVID-19: a remarkable achievement, blighted by its limited distribution in the Global South …
An atomic spaghetti junction points to new horizons in quantum computing: a novel quantum spin liquid that is totally entangled …
Plastic pollutes. And enzymes that break down plastics are becoming more abundant in areas of the ocean with higher pollution trends …
Symbolic AI agents resoundingly defeated neural networks in a NetHack video game competition. Symbolic AI was more adept at developing strategies …
Seeing farther than we have ever seen before, the Webb telescope promises to be a watershed in how we view the cosmos …
Forest management creates excess timber. Burned or decayed timber creates greenhouse gases. Why not turn that wood into a home? …
Avert your gaze up, away from coal, and to the sun! The price of fossil fuels is going up, while solar power will soon be dazzlingly cheap …
Different strokes: Two bipedal hominin taxa lived alongside each other in Tanzania. The footprints of one are characterized by a sloping, swiveling, gait …
From a database of graffiti on the walls of Pompeii: “We peed the bed. I admit it, host, we messed up. If you’ll ask me, ‘why?’ There was no chamber pot” …
Alzheimer’s might come from defective tau proteins getting left behind in the brain as autophagy—or a cell’s waste disposal system—slows down …
Astronomers agree that asteroids account for some of the Earth’s water. For the rest, could the answer be blowing in the solar wind? …
With the old guard … Laszlo Bito: A refugee from communist Hungary who found a treatment for glaucoma, then became a novelist and public intellectual …
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