Get all your news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One app.

Get all your news in one place.

100’s of premium titles. One news app.

The Latest Breaking News from Nature

Explained | How science helped Australian woman convicted of killing her children walk free

For almost two decades, Kathleen Folbigg, was behind bars, in Australia, for the death of her four very young children. Now, thanks to science, she can walk free

The Hindu

Why does hair turn gray?

Hair grays because pigment-producing cells get stuck within the hair follicle, research suggests.

LiveScience

James Webb Space Telescope discovers oldest organic molecules in the known universe, 12 billion light-years from Earth

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope discovered evidence of complex organic molecules in a galaxy 12.3 billion light-years away — the furthest and oldest ever detected.

LiveScience

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Pablo Escobar's 'cocaine hippos' top 200, twice as many as we thought

A new census of the world’s largest invasive species reveals the population is roughly double the size scientists previously estimated.

LiveScience

Loud launches: Researchers study how rocket noise affects endangered wildlife

A new study will monitor the short- and long-term impacts of rocket launches on endangered wildlife near California's Vandenberg Space Force Base.

Space

TB testing stuck in the previous century, and waiting for change

In Nature journal, Dr. Madhukar Pai, Dr. Soumya Swaminathan and Puneet K. Dewan recommend for tuberculosis using molecular tests with non-sputum samples in a decentralised facility that can test for multiple conditions.

The Hindu

Scientists stumble upon a new part of a cell in one of the most studied animals on Earth

Scientists found a previously unrecognized organelle in fruit flies, a thoroughly studied organism.

LiveScience

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

The jellyfish with a nervous system that is causing a shiver in the scientific community

Comb jellies may be too small to even cause ripples in the water as they swim, but their unique features are creating shockwaves in the scientific community.

The Hindu

The marine organism with a surprising wiring of neurons

A recent study, published in Science, found that instead of being connected by synapses, nerve-net neurons in comb jellies are continuously connected by a single plasma membrane - an unexpected and sensational finding.

The Hindu

Quantinuum Injects Topology Into Ion-Chain Quantum Entanglement to Solve Quantum Computing Error Correction

Quantinuum claims to have opened up the door to true fault-tolerant quantum computing with its work on nonabelian qubits, an exotic type of particle that brings the benefits of topology to quantum entanglement.

Tom’s Hardware

1st draft of a human 'pangenome' published, adding millions of 'building blocks' to the human reference genome

A new version of the human reference genome incorporates genetic data from 47 individuals from around the globe, deepening scientists' view into how genes work.

LiveScience

Origin of Deimos thrown into question

New data from the probe Hope reveals that Deimos may not be a captured asteroid at all

Salon

Academics find twist in tale of Rosalind Franklin, DNA and the double helix

Authors say scientist’s role was acknowledged at the time of discovery – contrary to popular narrative

The Guardian - UK

Rosalind Franklin knew DNA was a helix before Watson and Crick, unpublished material reveals

A new paper based on long-lost documents confirms that DNA discoverer Rosalind Franklin should be credited for discovering the double helix.

LiveScience

Get all your
news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One news app.

The Independent UK

Rosalind Franklin ‘was an equal contributor in the discovery of DNA structure’

Professors Matthew Cobb and Nathaniel Comfort said new evidence shows Franklin did not fail to understand her own data.

Salon

Is long COVID a ticking time bomb?

Long COVID isn't novel: other viruses in history have had similar “long” arcs — with devastating repercussions

Chicago Tribune

Commentary: Did COVID-19 cause pediatric hepatitis? Skepticism helped find an answer

Two qualities a first-class science journalist and a first-class physician must have are patience and a skeptical nature. If a new disease appears somewhere, the journalist and the physician need the skepticism to reject easy explanations of the source. As it has been said of war, first impressions are often…

The Guardian - UK

Why elephants, otters and whales are nature’s secret weapons against climate breakdown

New research shows how species boost the amount of carbon stored in their ecosystems – and why protecting them is vital, says Matthew Gould, CEO of the Zoological Society of London

Get all your
news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One news app.

WEKU

What's the origin of the long-ago Swahili civilization? Genes offer a revealing answer

Genetic analyses back up what Swahili oral tradition has long held about ancestry of people from eastern Africa — that their ancestors are from Africa and abroad.

The Conversation

We investigated the cause of an unexplained outbreak of hepatitis in children in the UK – here's what we found

In the spring of 2022, a paediatric gastroenterologist treating children in the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Glasgow issued an alert to Public Health Scotland (PHS), warning of an unusual outbreak of hepatitis cases in her clinic.

Salon

Humdrum comet or alien spacecraft?

A new article redraws the scientific debate over the origin and properties of our first interstellar visitor

Reason

Virtue Signaling by Scientific Journals Backfires, New Study Finds

Nature's 2020 endorsement of Joe Biden changed no minds but did significantly undermine trust in science.

The Guardian - AU

Morning Mail: SUV epidemic blamed on tax perks, Etihad accused of greenwashing, Trump indictment delay

Tax incentives lie behind Australia’s love affair with heavy-polluting vehicles, experts say

Inverse

15 Years Ago, Astronomers Made a Breakthrough in the Hunt for Life

Detecting methane on a distant exoplanet paved the way for the hunt for organic chemistry in the cosmos.

Reason

Should Scientists Use "Race" as a Proxy for Genetics?

Nature, last month (paywall): The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) will soon require [based on new federal legislation] researchers and companies seeking approval for late-stage clinical trials to submit a plan for ensuring diversity among trial participants…. The diversity requirement arrives in the wake of a 2022 report from…

1 … 5 6 7 8

People

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations

Food and Drug Administration

328 stories

Science

266 stories

Public Health Scotland

The Library of Congress

48 stories

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Topics

Places

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.