Tag: Science

Connecticut students are being asked to take on a new kind of homework: measuring the air they breathe. A project organized through the University of Connecticut is inviting students across the state to participate in hands-on research aimed at better understanding local air quality — and, researchers hope, at building a clearer picture of where…

Science does not always happen in gleaming laboratories. Sometimes it happens on a motel bedspread, under a flickering lamp, with samples spread across a desk that was never meant to hold anything more demanding than a room-service menu. That, according to a New York Times report, is where a discovery relevant to one of the…

Artificial intelligence has been billed as a tool that could accelerate discovery in the life sciences. Now researchers report that an AI model has helped identify a previously unknown biological system with similarities to CRISPR u2014 the bacterial defence mechanism that became the foundation of modern gene editing.nnThe finding is significant not only because of…

When the next pandemic arrives, the speed of the global response will depend less on any single breakthrough than on how quickly knowledge can move between laboratories, hospitals and public health agencies. That is the argument at the heart of a growing push for open science — and it is one that the computing industry,…

Some scientific discoveries come after years of planning, grant applications and carefully mapped field seasons. Others begin with a teacher taking a walk and noticing something odd underfoot. That is the shape of a story now drawing attention from researchers: a high school teacher came across two enormous footprints preserved in stone and, rather than…

There are not many stories in which humanity sees a catastrophe coming, understands it, and then actually stops it. The rescue of the ozone layer is one of them — and it remains the clearest proof we have that scientific warning, public alarm and political cooperation can add up to something other than paralysis. The…

At 145 Degrees, This Amoeba Manages to Keep Its Cool Most living things would be cooked long before the thermometer hit 145 degrees Fahrenheit. Proteins unravel. Membranes go slack. The delicate chemistry that keeps a cell running comes apart like a badly built sandcastle. Yet in the scalding runoff of hot springs and other geothermal…

Complex Life Found Defying Record Heat NASA-funded researchers have documented complex organisms surviving in conditions hotter than any previously known to support life of their kind, according to findings highlighted by the agency. The discovery pushes the accepted temperature ceiling for multicellular life higher and carries implications that reach well beyond Earth’s boundaries. Why the…

For decades, the deep Atlantic was treated as a convenient place to make a problem disappear. Between the late 1940s and the early 1980s, European nations loaded steel drums packed with low-level radioactive waste onto ships, sailed hundreds of kilometres offshore, and pushed them over the side. The reasoning at the time was that the…

A group of young women in Singapore is taking matters into their own hands when it comes to closing the gender gap in science, technology, engineering and mathematics. Rather than waiting for adults to design another outreach initiative, the students have organised a science research programme of their own, aimed squarely at encouraging female students…