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Environmental DNA taken from water samples and interviews with local fishers have both placed Mytella strigata, a brackish-water mussel native to Central and South America, in the estuaries of Kerala…
Physicists at Northwestern University report that a standard conclusion in network science, that variation among a network's parts makes the whole less stable, is an artifact of simplified models and…
Researchers at Simon Fraser University have reconstructed what a 1941 heatwave did to western North America by reading 357 issues of 25 news publications printed before, during and after it, and…
A protein named REAP1 links two families of molecular switches inside plant cells, and plants need that link to make working pollen, a Japanese research team reports in Nature Plants. Cells run on…
Stephen A. Weis has published the two prime factors of RSA-896, a 270-digit number from the RSA Factoring Challenge that nobody had broken in public before. He dates the factorization to Sept. 19,…
A protein called AP2-HS is required before stress in human blood can push the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum into the form that mosquitoes pick up, researchers at the Barcelona Institute for…
Doctors Without Borders and its research center, Epicentre, launched a study in Bunia, Democratic Republic of Congo, on Sept. 19 that will offer frontline health workers a vaccine licensed against a…
Researchers in Switzerland have traced how crevice corrosion, rust inside a joint's gap, begins and spreads through riveted steel. A team from ETH Zurich and Empa, the Swiss Federal Laboratories for…
Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, including Nobel laureate Jennifer A. Doudna, report the discovery of a family of RNA-guided systems that they place ancestral to the earliest…
Physicists at Columbia University have held a gas of ultracold molecules together for several seconds by using microwaves to suppress the collisions that destroy such gases, according to a paper…
EPB, the city-owned electric and internet utility in Chattanooga, Tennessee, switched on an IonQ Forte Enterprise quantum computer at its EPB Quantum Center on Sept. 18, 2026, installing it in the…
Two astronomers at the University of Cambridge have put ages on six nearby red dwarf stars that host planets, and they report that a star's rotation dates it far more tightly than its motion through…