In late March, the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced it had detected cases of bird flu in dairy cattle. Initially discovered in dairy farms in Texas, Kansas, and New Mexico, there are now 36 confirmed outbreaks in dairy herds in nine states. Although the H5N1 virus circulates widely in wild birds, it is now … Read more
In what scientists are calling a first for any non-human species, a Sumatran orangutan in Indonesia was seen creating and applying a medicinal paste made from local plants to a wound on his face. According to a newly published study about the observation, scientists witnessed Rakus, an adult male orangutan living in Gunung Leuser National … Read more
Credit: contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2024), processed by ESA This image may resemble the surface of Mars, but it was actually captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission, revealing the stunning terrain of northwest Namibia. The area pictured here includes part of the Kunene and Erongo regions, two of Namibia’s 13 regions. The Ugab River, … Read more
Representative images of HeLa cells transfected with EGFP-Rab4a, EGFP-Rab5a or EGFPRab11a for 24 hours, treated with 4 µM Tantalosin for 2 h and immunostained for EGFP (green) and transferrin receptor (TfR) (magenta). Nuclei are counterstained with DAPI. Credit: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2024). DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2317680121 In a study published in Proceedings of … Read more
A Long March 5 rocket, carrying the Chang’e-6 mission lunar probe, lifts off as it rains at the Wenchang Space Launch Centre in southern China’s Hainan Province on May 3, 2024. Hector Retamal | Afp | Getty Images China on Friday launched a space probe to collect samples from the far side of the moon … Read more
A three-color image of NGC 346 combining observations from NIRCam and MIRI. Credit: Habel et al., 2024. Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), an international team of astronomers has explored young stellar objects (YSOs) in an open cluster known as NGC 346. The study, published April 24 on the preprint server arXiv, yields crucial … Read more
A rendering of the BREAD design. The “Hersheys Kiss”–shaped structure funnels potential dark matter signals to the copper-colored detector on the left. The detector is compact enough to fit on a tabletop. Credit: BREAD Collaboration Approximately 80% of the matter in the universe is predicted to be so-called “dark matter,” which does not emit, reflect, … Read more
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain New research involving the University of East Anglia (UEA) suggests that countries’ current plans to remove CO2 from the atmosphere will not be enough to comply with the 1.5ºC warming limit set out under the Paris Agreement. Since 2010, the United Nations environmental organization UNEP has taken an annual measurement of … Read more
Synthetic cell development could lead researchers to new developments in food and medical sciences and a better understanding of the origins of life on Earth. Credit: NIH/Rhoda Baer Cells are the fundamental units of life, forming the variety of all living things on Earth as individual cells and multicellular organisms. To better understand how cells … Read more
Bottlenose dolphins bow-riding. Credit: Steven Banks, Amble Puffin Cruises A citizen science project reveals that most boat users along the North-East coast in the U.K. do not disturb dolphins and are often rewarded with close-up encounters. These findings were shared through the All Cameras on Deck citizen science project, led by the Marine MEGAfauna Lab … Read more
