Water jets may break up into droplets thanks to jiggling molecules
Streams of liquid form drops thanks to unidentified disturbances. It could be the jiggling of individual molecules.
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Skeleton with brutal injuries identified as duke assassinated in 1272
The skull now identified as Béla of Macsó Borbély Noémi/Tamás Hajdu et al. 2025 More than 700 years ago, a Hungarian duke was murdered in a brutal and very bloody head-on attack in a convent. Now, researchers studying an ancient skeleton excavated in Budapest have confirmed it belonged to the duke and revealed shocking details…
Grafting trick could let us gene-edit a huge variety of plants
Coffee plants can be propagated by grafting a shoot onto the rootstock of another plant sirichai_asawalapsakul/Getty Images The ancient trick of grafting one plant onto another could find a very modern use – enabling gene editing of plants that are very difficult or impossible to edit by other means. “It is still at the beginning…
COP30: What’s on the agenda at the Belém climate summit
A solar power plant in South Africa – support for clean energy will be discussed at COP30 EMMANUEL CROSET/AFP via Getty Images This year’s COP, kicking off on 10 November in Belém, Brazil, is unlikely to result in a major new international agreement for tackling climate change; instead, the focus will be on ironing out…
Slow Gods review: Deep-space sci-fi novel is delightful, profound and not to be missed
It’s bad luck for those living on Adjumir, which is set to be obliterated DETLEV VAN RAVENSWAAY/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY Slow GodsClaire North, Orbit Claire North is a successful and prolific novelist, writing under three separate names, but this is their first shift into classic science fiction, i.e. a novel with spaceships in it. I loved…
COVID Is Beginning to Surge Globally—What Are the Symptoms, and How Serious Is It?
November 5, 2025 4 min read COVID Is Beginning to Surge Globally. Here’s What We Know Limited COVID surveillance data are hampering vaccination and health strategies, researchers say By Katie Kavanagh & Nature magazine Orlando Sierra/AFP via Getty SARS-CoV-2 infections have been rising in the past month — global cases increased by more than 19,000…
Is the expansion of the universe slowing down?
The Tycho supernova remnant NASA/CXC/RIKEN & GSFC/T. Sato et al; DSS It’s widely been thought that our universe is expanding at an ever-accelerating rate. But could we have that wrong? That is what a group of scientists from South Korea has claimed in a new paper, but other scientists have cited major concerns with the…
NASA Chief Pick Jared Isaacman Renominated to Head Agency
In the latest turn in a battle over NASA’s future, on Tuesday President Donald Trump nominated billionaire entrepreneur and private astronaut Jared Isaacman to become the agency’s next administrator. Trump had first nominated Isaacman last year. This past May he suddenly withdrew the nomination and complained of Isaacman’s past campaign donations to Democratic politicians. Isaacman,…
Toxic algae blighting South Australia could pose a global threat
Many fish have been killed by the algal bloom in South Australia Australian Associated Press/Alamy Over the past eight months, a vast and deadly algal bloom in South Australia has ravaged over 20,000 square kilometres of the marine environment, killed an estimated 1 million animals from more than 550 species and had widespread impacts on…
Archaeologists Uncover a Monumental Ancient Maya Map of the Cosmos
November 5, 2025 3 min read Archaeologists Uncover a Monumental Ancient Maya Map of the Cosmos Archaeologists have uncovered evidence of a ritual-based site that may have been built long before the rise of Maya rulers By Humberto Basilio edited by Andrea Thompson A cross-shaped pit found at the Aguada Fénix site in Mexico after…