How permanent daylight saving time could affect schools

Sleep is fundamental to well-being. Decisions to end semiannual clock changes and remain on permanent daylight saving time ...

2,700-year-old mummy head yields first molecular evidence linking aloe to Egyptian embalming

What materials did ancient Egyptians use to preserve the dead, and how can their composition still be investigated thousands ...

Breaking the ice: Scientists use attracting particles to form an anti-spin ice

In a recent Nature Communications study, researchers have reported the realization of an anti-spin ice, a system that does ...

Heavy hydrogen in 3I/ATLAS's methane points to a frigid birthplace

The interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS carries a chemical clue to conditions in the planetary system of its origin, locked away long ...

Chemists develop AI tool to convert human ingenuity into life-enhancing enzymes

Many have voiced concerns that artificial intelligence will take jobs away from humans. But assistant professor of chemistry ...

Ultracold atoms simulate hard-to-observe matter-antimatter pair production

According to quantum electrodynamics, the theory describing interactions between light and electrically charged particles, a ...

Giant virus yields potassium channel gene that illuminates complex protein evolution

Researchers have discovered a gene for a tandem potassium channel in an algal virus. The finding supports the view that giant ...

Looking for bats after dark can help science—and change how we see them

What's that chirping sound coming through the detector? Did you feel something whiz past? Those are just some ways people ...

Calling species 'invasive'—and culling them—isn't done lightly. But it matters to Australia's threatened species

It may sound abstract, but distinctions between "native," "introduced" or "invasive" species can often be life or death.

Rare fossil discovery reveals new dinosaur species that specialized in eating fruit

Among the ravenous carnivores and lumbering herbivores that roamed the Cretaceous landscape, another kind of dinosaur was ...

Rare Iron Age Celtic helmet discovered in northeastern Poland far from its homeland

Around 2,400 years ago, at Łysa Góra in Poland, a group of people took a bronze helmet, crushed it, broke it into pieces and ...

This oddball reflective lava world is challenging to understand

Among Kepler and TESS's many surprising exoplanet discoveries are the ultra-short-period (USP) planets. These planets move very quickly and complete an orbit in less than 24 hours. Ancient astronomers ...