As a result of a snow drought and a heat wave that have both set records, some Colorado residents face the earliest restrictions on their water use ever imposed. Denver Water announced Wednesday that it is seeking a 20% cut in water use, asking people to turn off automatic watering systems until mid-May and restricting…
The discovery of a rare, tongue-shaped fungus is being hailed as a sign of the crucial ecological value of England’s national nature reserves. Never before recorded in the UK, the blue-based earthtongue, also known as Microglossum cyanobasis, was found sprouting at the Kingley Vale national nature reserve in West Sussex. It is only the second…
British physicists have shaped our understanding of nature and the universe for more than a century, uncovering the building blocks of matter and furthering our knowledge on cosmic puzzles from the big bang to black holes. But senior scientists warned on Friday that the field of particle theory faces an existential threat after universities were…
As a result of a snow drought and a heat wave that have both set records, some Colorado residents face the earliest restrictions on their water use ever imposed. Denver Water announced Wednesday that it is seeking a 20% cut in water use, asking people to turn off automatic watering systems until mid-May and restricting…
A central question in molecular biology is how cells protect their chromosomes from damage during repeated cell division. At the heart of this protective process is an enzyme called telomerase. Now an international research team has mapped the three-dimensional structure of telomerase in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, a widely used model organism in genetics. Source:…
A magnet could help us divert asteroids away from Earth TimothyOLeary/Getty Images We could deflect potentially hazardous asteroids by using an enormous magnet to gently pull them apart. This idea avoids some of the pitfalls of the more traditional kinetic impactor method, which involves smashing something into an asteroid to move it, but it has…
The spring is almost here, and this means one thing — it won’t be long before the sudden rise in pollen count starts wreaking havoc on hay fever sufferers. If that’s you, do not worry. Investing in a good air purifier can help you reduce your exposure to these pesky airborne allergens and bring much-needed…
Regardless of how much RAM you have, if you don’t take care and do proper management of your resources, you might still find the occasional memory hog that bogs down your entire system. RAM swapping is a common tool your OS uses to free up RAM in occasions, but if done unproperly, it can do…
March 27, 2026 2 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAm NASA spots comet reversing its spin in a first for science In 2017 NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope zoomed in on a comet as it passed around the sun. And then things took a more unusual turn By Claire Cameron edited by Jeanna Bryner NASA,…
Before Neanderthals went extinct, they experienced a major upheaval that resulted in just one of their genetic lineages surviving in Europe and then expanding across the continent, a new study shows. The findings, published March 23 in the journal PNAS, may shed light on what ultimately doomed the Neanderthals. Neanderthals were among the closest relatives…
