By Scientific American | | 7/31/2025 12:00 PM

The immune system senses damage to cell membranes caused by pore-forming proteins and mounts a response ... Read full Story

By LIVE SCIENCE | | 7/31/2025 11:45 AM

A laboratory experiment suggests caffeine may boost E. coli’s antibiotic resistance. However, whether this discovery applies to real-world infections in people is not yet known. ... Read full Story

By Scientific American | | 7/31/2025 11:45 AM

A relatively small detector caught neutrinos from a nuclear reactor using a technique known as coherent scattering ... Read full Story

By LIVE SCIENCE | sascha.pare@futurenet.com (Sascha Pare) | 7/31/2025 11:31 AM

Researchers say they have finally uncovered the mysterious origins of one of our favorite carbs: the humble potato. ... Read full Story

By LIVE SCIENCE | | 7/31/2025 11:29 AM

Astronomers believe they have spotted an elusive intermediate-mass black hole shredding a distant star, and they have re-created the stellar murder in a stunning new animation. ... Read full Story

By Scientific American | | 7/31/2025 11:15 AM

When people viewed virtual avatars with coughs or rashes, their brain triggered an immune response ... Read full Story

By LIVE SCIENCE | | 7/31/2025 11:01 AM

The debate about an undiscovered Planet X or Planet Nine has been going on for more than 100 years. ... Read full Story

By Scientific American | | 7/31/2025 11:00 AM

About nine million years ago, a hybridization involving the lineage of another farmers market star gave rise to the modern-day cultivated potato ... Read full Story

By LIVE SCIENCE | | 7/31/2025 10:40 AM

Eris-1, the first rocket fully built by an Australian company, crashed back to Earth 14 seconds after taking off from a spaceport in Queensland. It was the country's first orbital launch attempt since 1971. ... Read full Story

By LIVE SCIENCE | kristina.killgrove@futurenet.com (Kristina Killgrove) | 7/31/2025 10:16 AM

A 3D analysis comparing the way fabric falls on a human body versus a low-relief sculpture shows that the Shroud of Turin was not based on a real person. ... Read full Story

By LIVE SCIENCE | | 7/31/2025 10:00 AM

The viruses that kill bacteria may be our best bet against antibiotic resistance — if we can understand how they win. ... Read full Story

By LIVE SCIENCE | | 7/31/2025 9:59 AM

Get closer to the stars with $10 off one of the best stargazing binoculars we've tested — now the same price as Prime Day. ... Read full Story

By phys.org | | 7/31/2025 9:10 AM

Exploring the BTZ black hole in (2+1)-dimensional gravity took me down a fascinating rabbit hole, connecting ideas I never expected—like black holes and topological phases in quantum matter! When I swapped the roles of space and time in the equations (it felt like turning my map upside down when I was lost in a new city), I discovered an interior version of the solution existing alongside the familiar exterior, each with its own thermofield double state. ... Read full Story

By phys.org | | 7/31/2025 9:00 AM

Though atomic nuclei are often depicted as static clusters of protons and neutrons (nucleons), the particles are actually bustling with movement. Thus, the nucleons carry a range of momenta. Sometimes, these nucleons may even briefly engage through the strong interaction. This interaction between two nucleons can boost the momentum of both and form high-momentum nucleon pairs. This effect yields two-nucleon short-range correlations. ... Read full Story

By Scientific American | | 7/31/2025 8:00 AM

A lighting flash that spanned from East Texas to an area near Kansas City in 2017 is officially the longest lightning strike ever measured, according to the World Meteorological Organization ... Read full Story

By phys.org | | 7/31/2025 7:40 AM

Dark matter (DM) is a type of matter estimated to account for 80% of the universe's total mass, but it cannot be directly detected using conventional experimental techniques. As DM does not emit, reflect or absorb light, most previous dark matter searches were aimed at observing either its weak interactions with ordinary matter using highly sensitive detectors or other signatures linked to its presence or decay. ... Read full Story

By Scientific American | | 7/31/2025 7:00 AM

As Earth spins through space, its rate of rotation changes. Here’s why ... Read full Story

By phys.org | | 7/31/2025 6:25 AM

UC Riverside researchers have unveiled a powerful new imaging technique that exposes how cutting-edge materials used in solar panels and light sensors convert light into electricity—offering a path to better, faster, and more efficient devices. ... Read full Story

By LIVE SCIENCE | ben.turner@futurenet.com (Ben Turner) | 7/31/2025 6:00 AM

A new model may have finally solved where storm clouds get their missing energy. ... Read full Story

By LIVE SCIENCE | | 7/31/2025 5:00 AM

A new assessment of the enormous Tintina fault suggests it has been slowly accumulating strain over thousands of years. ... Read full Story