Month: March 2021

Since 2010, IceCube, a detector frozen in the ice beneath the South Pole, has snared neutrinos from deep space. The universe is awash with these fleeting, almost massless particles, but IceCube is after a rare subset. They are messengers from distant cosmic accelerators such as supernovae, neutron stars, and black […]

Despite nourishing babies for millennia, the alchemy of human breast milk remains mysterious. One unknown is how ingredients in the milk, which vary based on a mother’s diet and environment, can affect a baby’s health. Now, after scrutinizing the makeup of milk made by humans and mice, researchers report that […]