Moths pollinate clover flowers at night, after bees have gone home
Bees aren’t the only insects pollinating red clover. Moths do about a third of the flower visits after dark, new research suggests. The findings,...
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How to make jet fuel from sunlight, air and water vapor
Jet fuel can now be siphoned from the air. Or at least that’s the case in Móstoles, Spain, where researchers demonstrated that an outdoor...
Here’s the quickest way to grill burgers, according to math
If you have a hankering for a hamburger, math may have some timesaving cooking tips for you. Increasing the number of times a burger...
Here’s what to do when someone at home has COVID-19
I’m one of 40 percent or fewer of Americans who have managed to avoid getting COVID-19. I have been avoiding it like a potentially...
Ancient DNA links an East Asian Homo sapiens woman to early Americans
A previously undetected Homo sapiens population inhabited what’s now southwestern China around 14,000 years ago and contributed to the ancestry of ancient Americans. This...
The world is ‘losing the window’ to contain monkeypox, experts warn
It may soon be too late to end the global monkeypox epidemic. “We are losing the window to be able to contain this outbreak,”...
A new dark matter experiment quashed earlier hints of new particles
Potential hints of weird new particles in a dark matter detector have evaporated with new data. Following up on a beguiling result from its...
The heaviest neutron star on record is 2.35 times the mass of the sun
A fast-spinning neutron star south of the constellation Leo is the most massive of its kind seen so far, according to new observations. The...
Herminia Pasantes discovered how taurine helps brain cells regulate their size
When Herminia Pasantes Ordóñez was about 14 years old, in 1950, she heard her mother tell her father that she would never find a...
How James Webb Space Telescope data have already revealed surprises
Massimo Pascale wasn’t planning to study the galaxy cluster SMACS 0723. But as soon as he saw the cluster glittering in the first image...
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