Science
What is mitochondrial DNA and why do you inherit it from your mother?
Mitochondrial DNA is a small genome inside your cells that comes almost entirely from your mother. Here is why, and what the…
LZ Dark Matter Experiment Reports One Intriguing Event at 2.6 Sigma: What a Single Xenon Interaction Can and Cannot Tell Us
The LUX-ZEPLIN experiment recorded a single interaction in 220 live days that could have come from a WIMP. Here is how the…
A Lutetium Ion Clock Verified at the 19th Digit: How Singapore’s Optical Clock Could Help Redefine the Second
Two lutetium ion clocks built in Singapore were verified at the 19th digit, according to a Nature paper. How hyperfine averaging works,…
The 2026 El Niño Is Breaking Records: What NOAA’s Relative Index and the Daily Pacific Data Actually Say
Daily Pacific temperatures have topped the 2015 record, but NOAA ranks El Niños differently. What the numbers mean, why they disagree, and…
Do We Have Free Will? What Neuroscience and Philosophy Say
Brain experiments seem to show decisions begin before we are aware of them, yet the findings are disputed. A guide to the…
The Cambrian Explosion: What Happened and Why It Matters
Around 539 million years ago, most major animal groups appear in the fossil record. Here is what was found, what came before,…
How CAR-T Cell Therapy Works Against Cancer
CAR-T cell therapy turns a patient's immune cells into targeted cancer fighters. Here is how it is made, what it treats, and…
What Is Junk DNA? What Scientists Know About Non-Coding DNA
Only about 1 to 2 percent of human DNA codes for protein. The rest is a mix of switches, RNA genes, repeats…
Crew-13’s 7 Hour 55 Minute Ride: The Orbital Mechanics Behind the Fastest U.S. Trip to the ISS
Crew-13 docked with the ISS 7 hours 55 minutes after launch, the fastest arrival by any American spacecraft. The orbital mechanics behind…
The Quantum Equivalence Principle Passes Its First Free-Fall Test: Inside the Atom Interferometer That Dropped and Held an Atom at Once
A Science Advances experiment measured the quantum phase of a freely falling atom wave and found it consistent with Einstein's equivalence principle.…