physicist who guided Voyager probes to interstellar space
Credit: NASA/Carla Cioffi Edward Stone was a pre-eminent space scientist with an exceptional record of leading space missions and building
finding offers hope for better drugs
An injection pen for the diabetes drug Ozempic (semaglutide), which leads to substantial weight loss but also causes nausea bad
Stars hint at an unusual black hole lurking in our Galaxy
Astronomers can use the movements of stars to determine the location of a black hole (illustration).Credit: Victor de Schwanberg/Science Photo
These period pads solidify blood to prevent leaks
Commonly used menstrual pads, which can leak when saturated, have not changed much over time.Credit: Suphansa Subruayying/Getty A biodegradable molecule
How the watermelon got its sweet taste and rosy hue
Scientists have mapped the genomes of watermelon and their wild — and often bitter — relatives in unprecedented detail, in
Multiple plague outbreaks in a Neolithic family give clues to prehistoric population dip
RESEARCH BRIEFINGS 10 July 2024 A reconstruction of the occurrence of plague in a large family tree from Neolithic Sweden
This lab-grown meat probably tastes like real beef
Beef stem cells are added to a hydrogel that contains flavour compounds.Credit: Yonsei University Meat grown in the lab has
Cellular adaptation to cancer therapy along a resistance continuum
Vasan, N., Baselga, J. & Hyman, D. M. A view on drug resistance in cancer. Nature 575, 299–309 (2019). Article
An enterococcal phage-derived enzyme suppresses graft-versus-host disease
Patient cohort An observational cohort consisting of allo-HCT recipients was recruited from patients in the Department of Haematology at Osaka
A maternal brain hormone that builds bone
Ethics Experiments were approved and performed in accordance with the guidelines of the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) Institutional