January 31, 2025

Mitochondria as you’ve never seen them — January’s best science imagesMitochondria as you’ve never seen them — January’s best science images

January 31, 2025| admin|

Sea of stars. This vast, colourful portrait of our neighbouring galaxy, Andromeda, is a mosaic of more than 600 images that took the Hubble Space Telescope a decade to capture.

‘London Underground’ mosquito has surprisingly ancient origins‘London Underground’ mosquito has surprisingly ancient origins

January 31, 2025| admin|

The Culex pipiens molestus mosquito thrives in the subterranean world of the London Underground. Credit: Martin Dohrn/Science Photo Library A variety of mosquito once thought to have evolved in the

An evaporite sequence from ancient brine recorded in Bennu samplesAn evaporite sequence from ancient brine recorded in Bennu samples

January 31, 2025| admin|

Brines (over 3.5 wt% dissolved solids) are environments in which life could have evolved or might persist in the Solar System6, and are targets for spacecraft exploration. Evaporation or freezing can

The pros and cons of DeepSeekThe pros and cons of DeepSeek

January 31, 2025| admin|

Hello Nature readers, would you like to get this Briefing in your inbox free every day? Sign up here. Researchers open a canister containing fragments of the asteroid Bennu in

See 15 Adorable Photos of Playful, Picture-Perfect PenguinsSee 15 Adorable Photos of Playful, Picture-Perfect Penguins

January 31, 2025| admin|

Text by Tracy Scott Forson Photographs selected by Jeff Campagna Many people think of Antarctica and other polar regions when it comes to penguins, but the flightless birds can also

Thousands of highly cited scientists have at least one retractionThousands of highly cited scientists have at least one retraction

January 31, 2025| admin|

Credit: DMP/Getty More than 8,000 of the world’s most-cited scientists have at least one retraction, according to a database that links retractions to top-cited papers1. An analysis of the database,