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Researchers at the University of York report that patterns in brain activity recorded while people learned word-and-picture pairs differed depending on whether those pairs were still remembered after…
For more than a century, the Maya arrived to us as a civilization without authors. Their astronomers charted Venus across generations and their scribes carved dynasties into stone, yet the people who…
Somewhere in a chemical catalog sits a compound that nobody has ever dropped onto living cells while reading what happens to their genes. That is the ordinary case rather than the exception.…
A heatwave rarely leaves an obvious body count. There is no single moment, no wreckage to photograph. Most of the people it kills die at home or in hospital wards over a stretch of days, their deaths…
A mouse dies in the leaf litter of a northern European wood, and within a few hours a pair of burying beetles has found it. They work through the night. The two of them drag the body down into the…
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said on Aug. 25 that it has authorized the Libre Duo 10 Day Continuous Dual Glucose Ketone Monitoring System, a wearable sensor for people aged 2 and older…
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved Rasonque (daraxonrasib), a tablet taken once a day, for adults with metastatic pancreatic adenocarcinoma, the agency announced Aug. 26. The approval…
You get talking to two people you have never met before, and within a few minutes the three of you discover you all know the same person. The ordinary reaction is that the world is small. A paper…
A robotic system that builds and tests redesigned genetic codes in cell extracts, without recoding a living organism, is described in a paper published on August 26 in Nature. The open-access study,…
A fossil from West Texas that had been taken for a crustacean is described in Nature as an early insect with paddle-tipped legs running down its abdomen. The paper, "Amphibious stem-insect sheds…
A femtosecond is a millionth of a billionth of a second, and for chemistry it is the natural unit: atoms in a molecule take tens or hundreds of femtoseconds to rearrange. Electrons are quicker. They…
A fossil tells you that an animal lived. What it rarely tells you is what happened in the days and weeks after it died: the messy, crowded interval before burial, when a carcass becomes an ecosystem…