The exhibition reveals how prehistoric communities lived, adapted, and left traces across the Trent Valley. Beneath the Trent Valley, artifacts, pollen, animal remains, and layers of sediment preserve evidence of communities that lived there thousands of years ago. A new exhibition at the University of Nottingham Museum brings those discoveries together, revealing how archaeological research […]
30-Year-Old Museum Rock May Hide a New Mosasaur Species
Fossils newly identified in a rock collected 30 years ago in Osaka Prefecture may belong to a previously unknown species. For roughly 30 years, four mosasaur bones remained concealed inside a rock stored at the Natural History Museum, Kishiwada City. When researchers recently examined the unprepared specimen, they uncovered fossils unlike those of any mosasaur […]
Unzipping the Code of Life: Scientists Pinpoint Where DNA First Opens
Researchers mapped where DNA first opens and how a helicase gate may release one strand as genome copying begins. Before a cell can divide, it must open its tightly wound DNA and begin copying the entire genome. Researchers at the MRC Laboratory of Medical Sciences (LMS) and collaborating institutions have now traced this process to […]
Unzipping the Code of Life: Scientists Pinpoint Where DNA First Opens
Researchers mapped where DNA first opens and how a helicase gate may release one strand as genome copying begins. Before a cell can divide, it must open its tightly wound DNA and begin copying the entire genome. Researchers at the MRC Laboratory of Medical Sciences (LMS) and collaborating institutions have now traced this process to […]
Unzipping the Code of Life: Scientists Pinpoint Where DNA First Opens
Researchers mapped where DNA first opens and how a helicase gate may release one strand as genome copying begins. Before a cell can divide, it must open its tightly wound DNA and begin copying the entire genome. Researchers at the MRC Laboratory of Medical Sciences (LMS) and collaborating institutions have now traced this process to […]
Loneliness Is Making People Sick – but Medicine Can’t Fix It Alone
Treating loneliness as a health issue may encourage action while obscuring the broader social conditions behind it. Loneliness can damage health, but a healthcare system cannot rebuild communities or restore the social connections people have lost. A University of Michigan study warns that defining loneliness mainly as a medical concern may shift responsibility away from […]
American Heart Association Reveals How Much Coffee Is Safe for Your Heart
For millions of people, caffeine is the chemical switch that starts the day. Yet the dose and the source may determine whether it is largely harmless or risky for the heart. A new American Heart Association scientific statement concludes that most adults can safely consume up to 400 mg of caffeine a day, roughly the […]
Europa’s Hidden Ocean May Be Locked Beneath a Frozen Wall
New simulations suggest Europa’s massive ice shell may seal its hidden ocean off far more completely than scientists ever realized. Europa may contain more liquid water than Earth, yet reaching that water could be far more difficult than scientists hoped. New simulations suggest that Europa’s ice shell may not be a cracked doorway into its […]
Europa’s Hidden Ocean May Be Locked Beneath a Frozen Wall
New simulations suggest Europa’s massive ice shell may seal its hidden ocean off far more completely than scientists ever realized. Europa may contain more liquid water than Earth, yet reaching that water could be far more difficult than scientists hoped. New simulations suggest that Europa’s ice shell may not be a cracked doorway into its […]
Something Is Still Moving Beneath Venus’s Scorching Surface
Venus may be reshaping its surface at this very moment. New computer simulations suggest that enormous rift valleys are still forming across Venus, revealing that the scorching planet may be far more geologically active than scientists once believed. The findings add to growing evidence that Venus is not the geologically dead world it was once […]