UK summers are likely to regularly feature intense 40°C heatwaves
By New Scientist and Press Association An illustration of a heatwave over Europe Sasa Kadrijevic/Alamy UK summers are likely to…
Combating Maritime Litter: Innovative Solutions for Fighting Pollution in the Oceans
Between 1990 and 2015 alone, up to 100 million tons of trash are believed to have entered the oceans. Helmholtz-Zentrum…
Pinpointing where single-stranded transcripts convert into double-stranded RNAs
Credit: CC0 Public Domain St. Jude scientist Vibhor Mishra, Ph.D., is homing in on the location where important processes in…
Hearts From Donors Who Used Illicit Drugs or Died Due to an Overdose Are Safe for Transplant
Human Chest Cavity illustration: Right lung, left lung, heart. Credit: Copyright American Heart Association Tragically, the opioid epidemic has led…
Dutch unearth Roman canal, road near UNESCO heritage sites
A Roman-era canal was discovered in Oosterhout, in the eastern Netherlands, along with a road, both from around 2,000 years…
Watch Cassie the bipedal robot complete a 5K run
What just happened? In what is no doubt a major step toward the creation of Terminator-style cyborgs that will hunt…
Heart Cell Protein Discovery Could Lead to New Treatments for Heart Failure and Recovery
A protein that helps regulate calcium signaling within heart cells could play a key role in preventing chronic heart failure,…
Variations in climate conditions affect reproductive success of Antarctic krill, study finds
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Climate conditions play a significant role in the reproductive success of mature female Antarctic krill and…
Google appears to be working on a ‘Switch to Android’ iOS app
In brief: Anyone who decides they’ve had enough of Android and wants to switch to iOS can do so easily…
Cosmic Rays Help Supernovae Explosions Pack a Dramatically More Massive Punch
The final stage of cataclysmic explosions of dying massive stars, called supernovae, could pack an up to six times bigger…
Berkeley Lab’s CAMERA leads international effort on autonomous scientific discoveries
An artistic illustration of a mixture of Gaussian processes and a light or particle beam passing through. The image alludes…
TSMC gets green light on 2nm fab, plans to have it operational in 2024
The big picture: Just days after Intel said it was optimistic about retaking process technology leadership by 2025, TSMC comes…
