Creating human eggs from adult cells just got one step closer to reality. A technique used in cloning combined with fertilization and a bit of chemical coaxing caused human skin cells to produce eggs able to give rise to early human embryos, researchers report September 30 in Nature Communications. The effort is the latest attempt…
September 30, 2025 3 min read Mildly Menacing Mating Calls Lead to Discovery of New Gecko Species Scientists found new gecko species hidden in plain sight in pristine deserts of southern Africa, thanks to their loud, barking mating calls By Ashley Balzer Vigil edited by Andrea Thompson On a cool, starry night six years ago,…
The genetic identity of human egg cells can be changed in the lab Science Photo Library / Alamy Human embryos have been developed from eggs given the DNA of adult skin cells – a feat that had previously been achieved in mice. This could one day provide a way for gay couples or women with…
“Help me please … I can’t calm down without laying on the ground and freaking out for a good 20 minutes … Should I get medical help?” This plea came from a post on the social media site Reddit. The person who posted the question had been having panic attacks for several days after smoking…
It’s a sweltering Tuesday in Washington, D.C., the kind of day that stretches the definition of Earth as a “habitable” planet. But on an eighth-floor terrace near the U.S. Capitol building, dozens of people are outside anyway, talking and watching as passersby dart between pools of shade on the sticky streets below. Besides the heat,…
The jet blasting out of the black hole at the centre of the galaxy M87 Jan Röder; Maciek Wielgus et al. (2025) More than a century ago, astronomer Heber Curtis spotted the first black hole jet – a vast stream of superheated plasma from the supermassive behemoth that sits at the centre of galaxy M87….
The camels at Jebel Misma have been frozen in a march for 12,000 years. “They are really spectacular,” says paleoanthropologist Michael Petraglia. “They’re beautiful, monumental.” A herd of the animals are cut into a cliff towering above the mostly flat desert landscape of Saudi Arabia’s Nefud. The engravings are life-size, inscribed with about 150…
China has revealed its goal for slashing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, providing a glimpse into how global emissions might change over the next decade. In a video address to the United Nations Climate Summit on 24 September, Chinese president Xi Jinping announced that China will reduce greenhouse-gas emissions by 7% to 10% from peak levels…
The top image shows an untreated E.coli bacterium; the bottom shows a bacterium after 90 minutes of being exposed to the antibiotic polymyxin B Carolina Borrelli, Edward Douglas et al./Nature Microbiology The way antibiotics called polymyxins pierce the armour of bacteria has been revealed in stunning detail by high-resolution microscopy, which could help us develop…
Alexander Grothendieck was a giant of mathematics IHES Ask someone to name the most important physicist of the 20th century, and they will almost certainly say Albert Einstein. Ask the same question about the field of mathematics, however, and you will probably be met by blank stares – which is why I am going to…
