NASA’s Curiosity rover has detected more than 20 carbon-containing compounds — including seven never before seen on Mars — in a sample collected from 3.5-billion-year-old clay-bearing sandstones in Gale Crater. A close-up of three holes Curiosity drilled into Martian rock at a location nicknamed Mary Anning in October 2020. Image credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech /…
On 15 January, members of the House of Commons environmental audit committee (EAC) visited Bentham, the North Yorkshire town that has the highest levels of Pfas contamination in the UK. Colloquially known as “forever chemicals”, Pfas (perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances) do not naturally degrade or decompose. This persistence gives them special properties with useful applications…
Madeleine Finlay sits down with science editor Ian Sample to hear about some of the winners of the Breakthrough Prize, which held its ceremony in LA last weekend. Each prize is worth $3m and they’re awarded in physics, maths and life sciences. Madeleine and Ian hear from molecular biologist Jean Bennett, who shared a life…
Modern medicine has played a significant role in improving the length and quality of our lives. While many treatments may seem like miracles, they are the result of a lengthy, rigorous research process. Drug discovery is a particularly time-consuming and costly activity that is fraught with complex challenges and labor-intensive bouts of trial and error….
Nature Biotechnology, Published online: 22 April 2026; doi:10.1038/s41587-026-03106-3 This Comment discusses depth, robustness and bias in plasma proteomics, concluding that increasing the depth of coverage does not necessarily translate to quantitative robustness. Source: Read Full Article
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Kia is finally ready to reveal full details of its Vision Meta Turismo concept car after a brief glimpse in December. It’s clear the sports car is built to preview the brand’s long-term approach to performance EVs, including more to do while you’re not moving at all. The angular-yet-sleek fastback design is meant to be…
Disease has shaped human history for a long time, from the first pandemics of bubonic plague to the first bouts of cholera, influenza, and, eventually, COVID-19. But how long has disease influenced the survival and spread of modern humans, exactly? A new paper has harnessed environmental and epidemiological data to show that malaria caused by…
New research led by Max-Planck Institute of Geoanthropology and University of Cambridge scientists suggests malaria did more than sicken ancient populations, it steered where early humans could live, fragmenting groups and influencing the genetic map of our species. Colucci et al. explored whether Plasmodium falciparum-induced malaria drove habitat choice in human societies 74,000 to 5,000…
April 22, 2026 3 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAm How did humans evolve language? It may be far more ancient than scientists realized A new study links genetic regions that predate the divergence of modern humans and Neanderthals to language By Jackie Flynn Mogensen edited by Claire Cameron Veronika Oliinyk/Getty Images In 2001…
