All Stories by Rebecca Cheung
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Life
Blue light tells plants when to flower
Protein that marks day length also coordinates blooming genes.
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Health & Medicine
Even moderate noise may harm hearing
Chronic, low-level sound exposure causes deficits in rats.
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Life
Gene appears linked with a person’s daily rhythms
Variations could play a role in determining time of death, or help shift workers better adapt.
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Secret of a Lifetime
In the nuclear family, the neutron is clearly the black sheep. When a neutron “dies,” it decays into a proton. An electron and an antineutrino are emitted in the process. Stephen Egts HONING SURVIVAL Precision in measuring the neutron lifetime has increased (error bars in blue). But scientists need corroborating measurements to within a second […]
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Life
Tree cricket song has note of variability
Wings’ length, individual segments allow species to produce mating calls in range of frequencies.
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Life
Larvae sustain comb jelly population
Species thrives in Baltic Sea despite never reaching adulthood.
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Life
Polar bears older than previously thought
New analysis reveals that the Arctic species dates back to about 600,000 years ago.
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Physics
Long-sought particles possibly glimpsed
Majorana fermions, which are their own antiparticle, could one day be useful in quantum computing.
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Physics
Insects covered in tough stuff
Locust exoskeleton could inspire new, fracture-resistant materials.