Fish Liver Self-Defense: How Autophagy Helps Pufferfish Survive Under the Cold and Copper Stress
Newswise — By identifying and characterizing three key autophagy genes and tracking their responses under environmental stress, the…
From Fleeting to Stable: Scientists Uncover Recipe for New Carbon Dioxide-Based Energetic Materials
Newswise — When materials are compressed, their atoms are forced into unusual arrangements that do not normally exist…
New Model Fails to Explain Near-Death Experiences, Scientists Say
Newswise — An ambitious effort to create a neurophysiological paradigm to explain near-death experiences has failed to capture many fascinating…
Viruses in Wastewater: Silent Drivers of Pollution Removal and Antibiotic Resistance
Newswise — These findings suggest that current monitoring strategies, which rely heavily on bacterial indicators alone, may miss…
Researchers Develop New Tools to Turn Grain Crops into Biosensors
Newswise — ST. LOUIS, MO, January 6, 2026 — A collaborative team of researchers from the Donald Danforth…
NASA Hubble Helps Detect ‘Wake’ of Betelgeuse’s Elusive Companion Star
Newswise — Using new observations from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and ground-based observatories, astronomers tracked the influence of…
Backyard Insect Inspires Large-Scale Invisibility Particles Production
BYLINE: Jamie Oberdick Newswise — UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — When most people see a leafhopper in their backyard garden,…
3D-Printed Helixes Show Promise as THz Optical Materials
Newswise — Researchers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) have optimized and 3D-printed helix structures as optical materials…
Can Scientists Detect Life Without Knowing What it Looks Like? Research Using Machine Learning Offers a New Way
Newswise — When NASA scientists opened the sample return canister from the OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample mission in late…
It Is Rocket Science: New Heat Shields, Faster
Newswise — ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — From the tragedy of the space shuttle Columbia disaster in 2003 to the…
Great Salt Lake Roundworm Gets Shoshone Name
Newswise — Nematodes recently discovered in the Great Salt Lake belong to at least one species that is…
How a Single Gene Shapes Leaf Lobes in Brassica Rapa
Brassica crops, such as B. rapa, often display variations in leaf shape, including entire or lobed leaves, which significantly…