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The blood-brain barrier lets glucose and ketones c...
The endothelial cells lining brain capillaries are stitched together by tight junctions only 4 nanom...
When researchers presenting at the Alzheimer’s Ass...
New research presented at the Alzheimer's Association International Conference shows plasma biomarke...
In April 1967, a Palo Alto history teacher named R...
In April 1967, Cubberley High School history teacher Ron Jones set out to show his class how ordinar...
A single cup of raw spinach delivers about 750 mil...
Spinach's oxalic acid is a genuine plant defense compound — one that binds calcium in the gut, cryst...
Astronauts lose roughly 1% of their bone mineral d...
Astronauts shed roughly 1% of their bone mineral density per month in orbit — more than ten times th...
Sardinian shepherds in the Ogliastra highlands car...
In Sardinia's Ogliastra highlands, shepherds carry a Y-chromosome lineage — haplogroup I2a1a-M26 — t...
NASA just paid three private companies $600 millio...
NASA has committed nearly $600 million to three commercial space companies for four robotic Moon lan...
Remembering 'Ulysses 31', the '80s cartoon that tr...
So much more than the earwormiest theme song in the galaxy.
These 'metallic' dunes on Mars look like sci-fi. W...
New images from the European Space Agency's Mars Express orbiter have captured strange-looking waves...
Rest and holidays, we assume, are what happiness i...
Ask people what would make them happier and the answer is usually the same: time off, fewer demands,...
The Perseid meteor shower starts this week. Here's...
The Perseid meteor shower begins on July 17 alongside two others, making "shooting stars" likely any...
'Aliens' at 40: Here are 26 reasons why James Came...
Sorry, "Predator", but four decades later, this is still the sub-genre's high watermark
Earth's largest particle accelerator opens new win...
According to one researcher, this observation "promises new insights into the evolution of the early...
Making history: Watch Vikram-1, India's 1st privat...
India's first privately built orbital rocket, Skyroot Aerospace's Vikram-1, will try to reach orbit ...
'The Starry Night' in space: Dark Energy Camera ch...
The Dark Energy Camera has captured a vibrant view of the Corona Australis Molecular Cloud, with the...
Smoke from devastating Canada wildfires visible fr...
Satellites have captured images of the billowing smoke.
In 2011, Peruvian geologist Andrés Ruzo followed h...
In 2011, geophysicist Andrés Ruzo confirmed a 6.24-kilometre stretch of the Peruvian Amazon's Shanay...
Margaret Hamilton was 32 years old when her Apollo...
On July 20, 1969, the Apollo Guidance Computer began flashing 1202 alarms as Eagle descended toward ...
The Perseid meteor shower is here! How to see the ...
The 2026 Perseid meteor shower is active from tonight and peaks alongside a dramatic total solar ecl...
The Mariana snailfish lives 8,000 metres down in w...
The Mariana snailfish thrives 8,000 metres down in water pressure that would crush a submarine — tha...
Astronauts just launched on a Soyuz rocket with an...
This week's ISS astronaut launch used a Soyuz rocket emblazoned with an ad for an energy drink. It's...
Are we underestimating the threat of solar storms?...
A new study suggests the most extreme solar storms to strike Earth could have greater impacts on sat...
The International Space Station loses about 100 me...
The 420-tonne International Space Station sinks about 100 meters a day through the thin upper atmosp...
Vitamin B12 exists nowhere in the plant kingdom — ...
Vitamin B12 is the only vitamin that no plant and no animal can synthesise. Every microgram in the f...
Skeletal muscle burns through its entire ATP suppl...
Skeletal muscle stores only enough ATP for about two seconds of maximal effort. A phosphocreatine re...
The 2,700 heatwave deaths in England this summer w...
json { “content”: “ The two heatwaves that seared England and Wales in May and June killed roughly 2...
Tree swallows nesting at the northern edge of thei...
Tree swallows breeding at the northern edge of their range are paying a steeper climate penalty than...
In 2017, a single lightning bolt stretched an incr...
On 29 April 2020, a single stroke of lightning stretched 768 kilometres across Texas, Louisiana, and...
In 1665, Robert Hooke pressed a sliver of cork und...
In January 1665, Robert Hooke peered through a leather-covered microscope at a shaving of cork, saw ...
Marie Curie and her husband Pierre spent nearly fo...
For nearly four years in a leaky Paris shed, Marie and Pierre Curie boiled down eight tonnes of pitc...
SpaceX's Starship Flight 13 test launch aborts at ...
SpaceX aborted Flight 13 of its giant Starship rocket at the last second on Thursday (July 16). It's...
Astronomers discover landslides on Pluto large eno...
Evidence for landslides down steep crater walls on Pluto have been found in imagery from NASA's New ...
Astronomers discover 1st atmosphere around a rocky...
"It's in the habitable zone, which is super exciting for astrobiology and habitability and searching...
SpaceX stacks massive Starship rocket ahead of tod...
SpaceX has stacked the two stages of its giant Starship rocket ahead of the Flight 13 test launch, w...
An animated sci-fi rom-com wasn't on our wish list...
It's young rocket scientists in love and rowdy alien refugees when this animated adventure launches ...
Stephen Hawking's famous 'leaky' black hole theory...
"Hawking's laws of black hole mechanics provided a satisfying connection between extreme and ordinar...
Is dark matter 'tuned in' to a hidden dimension?
Two major mysteries in science, the nature of dark matter and the possible existence of higher dimen...
Watch SpaceX launch 21 'data transport' satellites...
SpaceX will launch 21 more satellites for the U.S. military's advanced new "Tranche 1 Transport Laye...
SpaceX will launch Starship, the world's largest r...
SpaceX plans to launch Starship Flight 13 today (July 16), a test mission that will send "V3" Starli...
'Full steam ahead': NASA ramps up prep for Artemis...
NASA is busy preparing for Artemis III, the next crewed mission of its moon program launching on the...
Watch Archimedes burn! Rocket Lab fires up engine ...
Rocket Lab recently performed a full-duration static fire test with the engine that will power the s...
Meteorite that crashed through New Jersey house co...
"Thanks to the homeowner’s quick reaction, these are the most pristine CM1/2 meteorites we know of."...
Raspberry sugar spotted in interstellar space, a s...
"Our work shows that sugars can form naturally in space."
The 10 best places in the UK to see the partial so...
August 12 will see the deepest partial solar eclipse in the U.K. for many decades, hours before the ...
'Found you!' Astronomers spot faintest exoplanet e...
It has taken over ten years, but astronomers have finally won a prolonged game of cosmic hide-and-se...
Every SpaceX Starlink satellite has to dodge a col...
SpaceX's Starlink satellites made over 355,000 collision avoidance maneuvers over the past year with...
