Jussie Smollett, the former Empire actor who was convicted, in 2021, of staging a hate crime on himself in 2019, has had that conviction overturned by the Illinois Supreme Court. The court ruled that, since Smollett had negotiated an agreement...
Plant stem cells growing in cultureNew Dawn Bio What may be the world’s first piece of lab-grown wood isn’t quite big enough to qualify as a woodchip – it’s more like a splinter. But the tiny fragment could be a...
It has widely been accepted that climate (in the form of the Late Little Ice Age or LLIA and the Justinianic Plague were the primary culprits of empirical change, causing a massive dwindling of the population, driving Rome to its...
The pasta nanofibresBeatrice Britton/Adam Clancy Scientists have produced the world’s thinnest spaghetti strands, 200 times slimmer than a human hair. These would challenge even the speediest chef, overcooking in a fraction of a second, but they could have applications in...
Artificial-intelligence models are able to translate an experimental method into code that runs a liquid-handling robot.Credit: GettySince July, researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico have been assessing how the artificial intelligence (AI) model GPT-4o can assist humans...
VATICAN CITY (RNS) — Marking 1,000 days since the start of the bloody war in Ukraine, with hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians and Russians dead and millions displaced, the Vatican on Wednesday (Nov. 20) welcomed Olena Zelenska, wife of Ukrainian...
Ad content in partnership with adidas. Since you’re a RetailMeNot reader, we know you’re a thoughtful shopper and an even more thoughtful gifter. With the holiday season right around the corner, you’re probably starting to gather ideas for loved ones...
The re-election of Donald Trump has reignited discussions over Israel’s potential annexation of the West Bank, a move supported by key figures in Israel’s far-right government. As speculation grows, many are questioning what such a step would mean for the...
We humans are nothing if not inventive. Our innovations have come to underpin virtually every facet of daily life—from what we eat to how we communicate. This ingenuity is intrinsically linked to both our outsize brain and our hands, which...
November 21, 20242 min readFirst Rocks Returned from Moon’s Far Side Reveal Ancient Volcanic ActivitySamples from the far side of the moon gathered by China’s Chang’e-6 mission record eons of tumultuous lunar historyBy Davide Castelvecchi & Nature magazineResearchers retrieve lunar...
