Articles of interest from across the scientific community.
Hydroxychloroquine is by now a drug with too much political charge. But a new study suggests it may indeed be effective against COVID-19 …
Two shards of obsidian found at a Michigan lake hint at a trade network that spanned North America 9,000 years ago …
As more ice melts in Antarctica, the ground will become visible and thus heat up the surrounding area, drawing in winds from the sea …
When a mouse is presented with the same stimulus twice one month apart, totally different neurons fire in its brain …
Like living, breathing, thinking … An intelligent and self-sustaining electronic microsystem can produce its own energy from thin air …
The difference in the waters around Antarctica has long been recognized, but it is only now that it has been given its own name: the Southern Ocean …
In mammalian embryogenesis, one cell zygote gives rise to millions of cells. How? Researchers define 19 stages in gastrulation and organogenesis …
An alternative to lasers, which can severely disturb biological processes, quantum microscopy can be used to examine light-sensitive living systems …
Lakes are rapidly losing oxygen due to climate change. Mass fish die-offs will become the new norm as water temperatures rise …
A new drug against Alzheimer’s has stirred up controversy in the field for its purportedly problematic data and non-negligible side effects ...
All but clear, the structure of glass has long confounded scientists. But researchers have now ascertained its structural basis …
If a society lives with a forest for 5,000 years, neither clearing trees, nor diminishing the diversity of its flora, does it make a sound? …
If you can’t take the heat, get out of the empire. Drastic changes in climate herald the disintegration of empires, and the dawn of new ones …
Tiny carbon particles can generate electricity by stealing energy from a liquid current flowing around them. Honorable thieves, indeed …
As easy as one, two, three: Neanderthals began to use numbers around the same time as Homo sapiens. How did they develop this ability? …
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