A metal ion bath may make fibers stronger than spider silk
Super strong artificial silk? That’s so metal. Giving revamped silkworm silk a metallic bath may make the strands both strong and stiff, scientists report...
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How dormant bacteria spores sense when it’s time to come back to life
Bacteria go to extremes to handle hard times: They hunker down, building a fortress-like shell around their DNA and turning off all signs of...
Here’s where jazz gets its swing
It don’t mean a thing if it ain’t got that swing — all you’ve got to do is stagger your timing. For decades, fans...
Losing amphibians may be tied to spikes in human malaria cases
In the 1990s and 2000s, Costa Rica and Panama experienced spikes in malaria cases. The massive loss of amphibians in the region from a...
Pterosaurs may have evolved from tiny, fast-running reptiles
A mysterious ground-dwelling reptile unearthed in a Scottish sandstone over 100 years ago turns out to be part of a famous flying family. Tiny...
A way to snap molecules together like Legos wins 2022 chemistry Nobel
A tool kit for snapping together molecules like Lego building blocks has won the 2022 Nobel Prize in chemistry. Chemists Carolyn Bertozzi of Stanford...
‘Breathless’ explores COVID-19’s origins and other pandemic science
BreathlessDavid QuammenSimon & Schuster, $29.99 When COVID-19 burst onto the global stage in 2020, it was deadly and disruptive. In the first weeks of...
Quantum experiments with entangled photons win the 2022 Nobel Prize in physics
Tests of quantum weirdness and its potential real-world applications have been recognized with the 2022 Nobel Prize in physics. At some level we are...
Video captures young mosquitoes launching their heads to eat other mosquitoes
A kind of teenager mosquito can suddenly shoot its head forward from its body — stretching its neck into a skinny cord — to...
Despite a retraction, a room-temperature superconductor claim isn’t dead yet
It may be too soon to mourn the demise of a room-temperature superconductivity claim. On September 26, the journal Nature retracted a paper describing...
Small Farmers in Peru Combat Machismo to Live Better Lives