Researchers have warned that the Thwaites Glacier, one of the largest glaciers in the world, is about to lose its eastern ice shelf. We spoke to marine geophysicist Robert Larter about what this means for the "Doomsday Glacier."

"It's sort of a side branch."

Extraterrestrial dust falls on every part of the Earth, including the parts covered in cities. Most of it arrives as grains a few hundredths to a few tenths of a millimetre across, finer than a grain of sand or close to it, and it lands without anyone noticin…

Researchers have discovered a new type of giant virus, which replicates in a way we've never seen before.

Although resistors are hardly among the most exciting components, they are arguably one of the most important ones, as anyone who has done any amount of circuit design and debugging can attest to. …

Inside the longevity conference that brings together founders, investors, biohackers, and the generally death-averse to discuss how to forestall — or even beat — our demise.

NSUN2 is an enzyme that adds a small chemical mark to RNA molecules and uniquely selects its targets based on specific sequence patterns and structural features.

β-Arrestins, multifunctional adaptor proteins that regulate G-protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs), form phase-separated condensates, suggesting that β-arrestin liquid–liquid phase separation organizes and diversifies GPCR signalling functions.

It’s a whale of a “tail.”