Bumblebees carried more heavy metals than honeybees sharing the same landscape, suggesting that pollution exposure can vary substantially between bee species. Bumblebees living beside honeybee colonies in Cambridgeshire brought back pollen with far higher levels of toxic metals. For most of the metals tested, concentrations were between two and seven times those in honeybee pollen, […]
Sperm Teamwork Is Far More Common Than Scientists Realized
A new study by Syracuse University biologists examines how cooperation among sperm has evolved over the past 500 million years. In sperm conjugation, sperm cells work together like a crew of rowers, forming coordinated groups that may improve their chances of reaching and fertilizing an egg. A new study suggests this cooperation is widespread among […]
The “Glue” Inside Protons May Hold the Secret to Matter’s Identity
A hidden Y-shaped junction of gluons inside protons may carry one of matter’s most fundamental properties, challenging a decades-old textbook assumption. New findings from the STAR detector at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) suggest that gluons, the particles that act like glue between quarks inside protons, may play a much bigger role in preserving […]
The “Glue” Inside Protons May Hold the Secret to Matter’s Identity
A hidden Y-shaped junction of gluons inside protons may carry one of matter’s most fundamental properties, challenging a decades-old textbook assumption. New findings from the STAR detector at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) suggest that gluons, the particles that act like glue between quarks inside protons, may play a much bigger role in preserving […]
The “Glue” Inside Protons May Hold the Secret to Matter’s Identity
A hidden Y-shaped junction of gluons inside protons may carry one of matter’s most fundamental properties, challenging a decades-old textbook assumption. New findings from the STAR detector at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) suggest that gluons, the particles that act like glue between quarks inside protons, may play a much bigger role in preserving […]
Astronomers Detect a Faint Hydrogen Signal From Billions of Light-Years Away
MeerKAT’s direct detection of distant hydrogen emissions advances a way to map the universe without identifying galaxies individually. Astronomers using South Africa’s MeerKAT radio telescope have directly detected faint radio emissions from neutral hydrogen gas billions of light-years away. The signal traveled for roughly four to five billion years before reaching Earth, offering a way […]
Fighting Fire With Fire Could Save Giant Sequoias
Iconic trees in areas with controlled burns are four times as likely to survive extreme wildfires. Giant sequoias, the enormous trees native only to the western slopes of California’s Sierra Nevada, can live for more than 3,000 years. Yet thousands died when the Castle Fire in 2020 and the KNP Complex Fire in 2021 swept […]
Fighting Fire With Fire Could Save Giant Sequoias
Iconic trees in areas with controlled burns are four times as likely to survive extreme wildfires. Giant sequoias, the enormous trees native only to the western slopes of California’s Sierra Nevada, can live for more than 3,000 years. Yet thousands died when the Castle Fire in 2020 and the KNP Complex Fire in 2021 swept […]
Fighting Fire With Fire Could Save Giant Sequoias
Iconic trees in areas with controlled burns are four times as likely to survive extreme wildfires. Giant sequoias, the enormous trees native only to the western slopes of California’s Sierra Nevada, can live for more than 3,000 years. Yet thousands died when the Castle Fire in 2020 and the KNP Complex Fire in 2021 swept […]
Fighting Fire With Fire Could Save Giant Sequoias
Iconic trees in areas with controlled burns are four times as likely to survive extreme wildfires. Giant sequoias, the enormous trees native only to the western slopes of California’s Sierra Nevada, can live for more than 3,000 years. Yet thousands died when the Castle Fire in 2020 and the KNP Complex Fire in 2021 swept […]