Alien-hunting telescope suffered ‘no damage to electronics’ during mysterious midnight disaster
Officials will launch forensic investigation of Arecibo incident.
COVID-19 immunity ‘declines sharply’ a month after hospital discharge
Researchers say their study provides information helpful for developing effective treatments and a preventive vaccine.
Bricks Can Be Turned Into Batteries
Pumping cheap iron-oxide-rich red bricks with specific vapors that form polymers enables the bricks to become electrical charge storage devices.
The more they eat, the more tentacles these sea anemones sprout
Almost every school child knows that cats have four legs, humans two, and spiders, a terrifying eight. Their number of limbs is immutable, set by their genetic code. But a new study suggests starlet sea anemones—part of a famously adaptable group of aquatic creatures known as cnidarians—have a leg up […]
Stark new imagery reveals the scary extent of West Coast wildfires
The fires stretch from Washington to California.
‘Invaluable’ database helps solve mystery of how genes are regulated
When the human genome was sequenced almost 20 years ago, many researchers were confident they’d be able to quickly home in on the genes responsible for complex diseases such as diabetes or schizophrenia. But they stalled fast, stymied in part by their ignorance of the system of switches that govern […]
Alien hunters get a funding boost, and checking on the link between chromosome ‘caps’ and aging
First up this week, Senior Correspondent Daniel Clery talks with host Sarah Crespi about how Breakthrough Listen—a privately funded initiative that aims to spend $100 million over 10 years to find extraterrestrial intelligent life—has changed the hunt for alien intelligence.
Dark matter hunter who found unexpected, giant ‘Fermi bubbles’ wins $100,000 physics prize
Tracy Slatyer, known for hunting dark matter in our galaxy and discovering evidence of an ancient Milky Way explosion, has won a $100,000 prize funded by tech billionaires.