Similar brain regions are involved in imagination and perceiving reality Naeblys/Alamy How do you tell if something is real or imaginary? We have now discovered a brain pathway that seems to help you decide – and the finding could improve treatments for hallucinations caused by conditions such as Parkinson’s disease. We already knew that the…
The spacecraft’s owner, ispace, is attempting to land these crafts to commercialize lunar resources.
Mathematicians Solve Multidimensional Fruit-Slicing Dilemma A 40-year-old conjecture on shapes’ cross sections is finally proven By Max Springer edited by Sarah Lewin Frasier In 1986 Belgian mathematician Jean Bourgain posed a seemingly simple question that continued to puzzle researchers for decades. No matter how you deform a convex shape—consider shaping a ball of clay into…
Damage to the retina at the back of the eye can lead to blindness BSIP SA/Alamy A retinal implant has partly restored vision in blind mice, suggesting it could one day benefit people with conditions such as age-related macular degeneration, which involves a progressive loss of light-sensitive cells from the retina. Shuiyuan Wang at Fudan…
Rhino poaching may be substantially reduced by removing the reason so many rhinos are poached in the first place: their highly valued horns. Dehorning rhinos dramatically drops the poaching rate compared with other tactics, researchers report June 5 in Science. The researchers suggest that no other anti-poaching intervention — such as protective fencing or higher…
This ‘Tower of Worms’ Is a Squirming Superorganism Scientists have captured the first videos of wild roundworms forming living, wriggling towers that behave as one big superorganism By Jacek Krywko edited by Allison Parshall Roundworms tagged with glowing proteins create a tower in the lab. Perez et al. (2025) Current Biology (CC-BY-4.0) When food runs…
Taurine supplements have been considered promising for delaying ageing, but that may not be the case Shutterstock / Eugeniusz Dudzinski The amino acid taurine was once thought to decline with age, and animal research suggested that taurine supplements could delay ageing. But a new study shows that the decline doesn’t happen consistently. In fact, taurine…
A laser eye-in-the-sky has uncovered vast, ancient farm fields in an unlikely place — the frosty forests of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. Ancestors of present-day Menominee people, a federally recognized Native American tribe, grew maize and other crops in densely clustered earthen ridges from around 1,000 to 400 years ago, researchers report in the June 5…
New Hires Will Still Leave the NWS Dangerously Understaffed, Meteorologists Say Nearly 600 employees left the National Weather Service or were fired in recent months. Meteorologists say 125 expected new hires will still leave the agency dangerously understaffed By Chelsea Harvey & E&E News A tornado struck communities in Somerset and London, Ky., on May…
The ITER project is an experimental fusion power reactor ITER Nuclear fusion has the potential to deliver nearly limitless power – but before it can even get started, the world must build a massive supply of enriched lithium fuel from scratch. “One of the biggest missing pieces of technology is the enrichment stage, where a…
