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Yes No What We’ll See When Betelgeuse Goes Supernova Ethan Siegel, Forbes First Footage of Atoms Forming and Breaking Bonds Theresa Machemer, S’sonian Study: No Link Between Herpes Virus and Alzheimer’s Katarina Zimmer, The Sci Why Snakes Probably Aren’t Speading China’s Virus Callaway & Cyranoski, Nature An Ethical Future for Brain Organoids Takes Shape Jordana Cepelewicz, Quanta Four Generations of Spread Seen With Virus in China Helen Branswell, Stat 14th-Century Steambath Discovered in Mexico City George Dvorsky, Gizmodo Scientists Reconstruct Voice of Ancient Egyptian Mummy Donna Lu, NewScientist ’Forbidden’ Nuclear Transition Reveals How Some Stars Die Sam Jarman, P-World China’s Response to Virus Shows It Learned From SARS Thomas Abraham, Guard Twisted Bilayer Graphene Enters a New Phase Heather M. Hill, Physics Today Sign Languages Grew From Five Independent Lineages Natalie Parletta, Cosmos Follow RCScience: Facebook | Twitter | News360 | Email The Latest Research First Treatment for Pain Using Stem Cells a Success in Mice EurekAlert! Mars’ Water May Have Been Mineral Rich and Salty Tokyo Institute of Technology New Evidence to Explain Behavior of Slow Earthquakes University of Ottawa Using Manganese Makes a ’Seawater Battery’ More Likely Southern Denmark Humans Of The Future Sponsored By: Protein Called Sestrin Mimics Exercise’s Effects in Mice University of Michigan Our Body Systems Age at Different Rates Sharon Begley, Stat Tips From the US’s Top Longevity Hot Spot Cari Shane, Leaps Robotic Skins Might Enable Next-Gen Space Exploration Shi En Kim, Massive More From Real Clear Videos Why Do These Trees Refuse to Touch? Buzzfeed Hidden Camera Investigation Exposes Anti-Vaxxers Buzzfeed Solutions to the "Impossible" Three Body Problem Buzzfeed When Insomnia Becomes Deadly BuzzfeedWhat We’ll See When Betelgeuse Goes Supernova Ethan Siegel , Forbes The stars in the night sky, normally static and unchanging, have an exception currently among them. Betelgeuse, the red supergiant that makes... Read More First Footage of Atoms Forming and Breaking Bonds Theresa Machemer , S’sonian Scientists have captured video of a pair of rhenium atoms breaking apart and bonding again in a carbon nanotube. The study, published in... Read More Study: No Link Between Herpes Virus and Alzheimer’s Katarina Zimmer , The Sci Around 30 years ago, researchers in the UK discovered DNA strands of herpes simplex virus 1 in postmortem brain samples of Alzheimer’s... Read More Why Snakes Probably Aren’t Speading China’s Virus Callaway & Cyranoski , Nature As human cases rise in a mysterious viral outbreak that originated in China, scientists are rushing to identify the animals, where they... Read More An Ethical Future for Brain Organoids Takes Shape Jordana Cepelewicz , Quanta Part of the brain’s allure for scientists is that it is so deeply personal — arguably the core of who we are and what makes us human.... Read More Four Generations of Spread Seen With Virus in China Helen Branswell , Stat Emerging data on the new virus circulating in China adds to evidence there is sustained human-to-human transmission in the city of Wuhan, and... Read More 14th-Century Steambath Discovered in Mexico City George Dvorsky , Gizmodo Archaeologists in Mexico City have uncovered a pre-Hispanic steambath dating back to the 14th century. Its location in the city’s historic... Read More Scientists Reconstruct Voice of Ancient Egyptian Mummy Donna Lu , NewScientist Thanks to modern imaging and 3D printing, we now know what an ancient Egyptian mummy sounded like.David Howard at Royal Holloway, University... Read More ’Forbidden’ Nuclear Transition Reveals How Some Stars Die Sam Jarman , P-World Intermediate-mass stars expire via thermonuclear explosions, rather than gravitational collapse, according to experiments and calculations... Read More China’s Response to Virus Shows It Learned From SARS Thomas Abraham , Guard A new disease arrives in a Chinese winter – is history repeating itself? At the end of 2002, Sars erupted in the southern Chinese... Read More Twisted Bilayer Graphene Enters a New Phase Heather M. Hill , Physics Today For years many graphene researchers pursued superconductivity. In 2018 Pablo Jarillo-Herrero of MIT and his colleagues found it in so-called... Read More Sign Languages Grew From Five Independent Lineages Natalie Parletta , Cosmos Delving into centuries-old manuscripts depicting dozens of sign language alphabets, scientists have identified five primary lineages that... Read More The Latest Research First Treatment for Pain Using Stem Cells a Success in Mice EurekAlert! Researchers at the University of Sydney have used human stem cells to make pain-killing neurons that provide lasting relief in mice, without... Read More Mars’ Water May Have Been Mineral Rich and Salty Tokyo Institute of Technology Presently, Earth is the only known location where life exists in the Universe. This year the Nobel Prize in physics was awarded to three... Read More New Evidence to Explain Behavior of Slow Earthquakes University of Ottawa A team of researchers at the University of Ottawa has made an important breakthrough that will help better understand the origin and behavior... Read More Using Manganese Makes a ’Seawater Battery’ More Likely Southern Denmark We all know the rechargeable and efficient lithium ion (Li-ion) batteries from our smartphones, laptops and also electric cars.Unfortunately,... Read More Humans Of The Future Sponsored By: Protein Called Sestrin Mimics Exercise’s Effects in Mice University of Michigan Whether it be a brisk walk around the park or high intensity training at the gym, exercise does a body good. But what if you could harness... Read More Our Body Systems Age at Different Rates Sharon Begley , Stat One 50-year-old has the nimble metabolism of a teenager, while another’s is so creaky he developed type 2 diabetes — though his immune... Read More Tips From the US’s Top Longevity Hot Spot Cari Shane , Leaps People are living longer in the world’s richest countries, according to a recent Pew Report. Certain areas, in particular, have drawn the... Read More Robotic Skins Might Enable Next-Gen Space Exploration Shi En Kim , Massive It tromps along without a care, until it bumps into an obstacle. Repeated shoves don’t seem to budge this roadblock. Left with no... Read More More From Real Clear Videos Why Do These Trees Refuse to Touch? Buzzfeed Hidden Camera Investigation Exposes Anti-Vaxxers Buzzfeed Solutions to the "Impossible" Three Body Problem Buzzfeed When Insomnia Becomes Deadly BuzzfeedShining Light on Dark Matter The Other Dark Matter Candidate Sean CarrollIn the early 1970s, physics had a symmetry problem. According to the Standard Model, the guiding framework of particle physics, a symmetry between particles and forces in our universe and a mirror version should be broken. Read More more from Shining Light on Dark Matter Dark Matter Link to Regular Matter’s Dominance a No-Show Sabine HossenfelderCould the Mysteries of Antimatter and Dark Matter Be Linked? Sarah CharleyStrange Dark Matter Findings Could Rewrite Universe’s History Ethan Siegel’Strong CP Problem’ Is Most Underrated Puzzle in Physics Ethan SiegelThe CRISPR Frontier Could Scientists ’Hack’ the Zika Virus to Kill Brain Cancer?The mosquito-spread Zika virus known for its links to brain damage in babies born to infected mothers has the potential to target and destroy brain cancer, scientists have found.New research has revealed that the Zika virus breaks into brain cells by using a special molecular key, and scientists think the virus could be tweaked so that it infects...