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Two Genes at the Cilium's Gate Explain Some Cases of a Rare Lung Disease
The airways clean themselves. A thin film of mucus catches the dust, smoke and bacteria that arrive with every breath, and millions of microscopic hairs, called cilia, beat in unison to sweep that…
By Gabriela Szalayová3w ago5 min read
Environment
When Wind and Sunshine Fail Together, the Lulls Are Projected to Last Longer
The hardest hours for a grid that runs on weather are not the still ones, and not the overcast ones. They are the hours that are both at once, and the worst of those arrive sharply rather than…
By Diana Brinker3w ago4 min read
AI & Technology
Training One Speech Model per Disease Beats Pooling Them Together
Bernard Muller studies what happens to a voice when the nervous system behind it fails. He also lives it: ALS has taken his own speech, and he works through an eye-gaze interface, as the paper…
By Olga Schmidt3w ago5 min read
Space
Exploding Stars Supply Enough Energy to Keep Andromeda's Gas Stirred
Photograph the Andromeda galaxy in ordinary starlight and you get the poster image: a calm banded spiral, the nearest giant spiral to our own. Map the same galaxy in the radio glow of neutral…
By Kristopher R. Jeffay4w ago4 min read
Space
A New Moon Crater Left a Wide Patch of Cooler Ground
On Oct. 24, 2025, Robert Wagner was doing something routine: checking the quality of a map of the whole Moon, stitched together from hundreds of frames taken years apart. The software he uses turns…
By Victor Kuklin4w ago5 min read
Environment
The Mediterranean Is Warming Faster Every Decade, and the Speed-Up Runs Deep
Since 1950, ships working the Mediterranean have stopped over deep water, lowered instruments on a wire and read back the temperature and the saltiness of the sea beneath them. More recently, robots…
By Anna Kotlyar4w ago5 min read
Science
Strong Evidence, but Not yet an Observation, for Entangled Z Bosons
A single experiment can be unlucky. A statistical wobble shaped like a discovery is the oldest hazard in particle physics, and the field's reflex, when one detector reports something strange, is to…
By Diana Brinker4w ago5 min read
Space
Comet Ice From Another Star Does Not Look Like Ours
Water ice leaves the same characteristic fingerprints wherever it is. Point an infrared telescope at it and it takes bites out of the sunlight it reflects: two shallow ones near 1.5 and 2.0…
By Diana Brinker4w ago5 min read
Science
The Aphid Survives the Spray, and the Wasp Inside It Pays
Spray a field of peppers and most of the green peach aphids under the leaves die. A few do not. They carry a small change in the protein the chemical was built to jam, so the dose passes over them.…
By Gabriela Szalayová4w ago4 min read
Environment
Bubble Curtains Catch the Plastic That Floats, Not the Plastic That Sinks
A bubble barrier is a simple piece of equipment. Air is pushed into the water at the bottom of a channel and rises as a wall of bubbles, and plastic drifting down with the current is meant to be…
By Gabriela Szalayová4w ago4 min read
Environment
Under Chile's Streetlights, a Cleared Patch of Shore Came Back More Slowly
A streetlight on a seawall does not switch off at low tide. Below it the rock is alive with things that cannot move away: seaweeds, flat crusts, a slick of microbes and the small animals that graze…
By Anna Kotlyar4w ago4 min read
AI & Technology
How a Brainless Slime Mold Became an Engineering Consultant
Imagine this: You are the CEO of a logistics company. You face the following challenge: to optimize delivery routes in real time, minimize infrastructure costs and respond instantly to the…
By Oli Kotyk4w ago6 min read