A vitamin A discovery is changing what scientists know about vision

Scientists at Johns Hopkins University have uncovered how humans develop sharp central vision before birth, identifying a carefully timed interaction between a vitamin A derived molecule and thyroid hormones in the retina. The discovery challenges a decades old explanation for how key light sensing cells form and could guide future…

The Ozempic and Wegovy mistake sending thousands to poison control

The explosive growth in semaglutide (Ozempic and Wegovy) We use after its FDA approval for chronic weight management in 2021 was accompanied by another trend that drew researchers’ attention: a dramatic increase in calls to poison control centers across the United States. Jordan Miller, then an undergraduate student at UT…

Harvard scientists turn a silicon chip into a DNA writing machine

Silicon chips have been the foundation of modern computing for decades. Now, researchers are giving them an entirely new role in biotechnology. In addition to processing information, these chips are increasingly being used to study living systems by recording activity from neurons, reading DNA, and now even creating DNA. In…

Nel 2026 il giugno più caldo per l’Europa occidentale – Notizie – Ansa.it

Giugno 2026 è stato il giugno più caldo mai registrato per l’Europa occidentale e il secondo più caldo a livello globale. Ha registrato temperature quasi record, trainate da quelle superficiali del mare mai così alte per il mese. Lo afferma il programma di osservazione della Terra dell’Unione Europea, Copernicus Climate…

Tiny silica particles wiped out aggressive prostate cancer in mice

Researchers have developed tiny silica nanoparticles that can directly destroy prostate tumors while also awakening the body’s immune system to fight cancer, according to a new preclinical study led by scientists at Weill Cornell Medicine and the Cornell Duffield College of Engineering. In mouse models of aggressive prostate cancer, the…

Heidelberg physicists just united two opposing quantum theories

A new theory developed by physicists at Heidelberg University brings together two long competing ideas in quantum physics, offering a unified explanation for how an unusual particle behaves inside a crowded quantum environment. The work connects two seemingly opposite descriptions of a single impurity moving through or remaining nearly motionless…

Rare goblin shark filmed alive for the first time in the deep sea

For the first time, scientists have documented live goblin sharks (Mitsukurina owstoni) thriving in their natural deep ocean environment. The historic observations, led by a University of Hawai’i at Mānoa research team, provide an unprecedented look at one of the world’s rarest and most mysterious sharks without removing it from…

Michele Mari vince il Premio Strega 2026 – Libri – Ansa.it

Michele Mari vince il Premio Strega 2026 con il romanzo ‘I convitati di pietra’ (Einaudi) che ha avuto 190 voti. Al secondo posto Matteo Nucci con ‘Platone. Una storia d’amore’ (Feltrinelli), con 152 voti e al terzo Bianca Pitzorno con ‘La sonnambula’ (Bompiani) 84 voti. Al quarto posto Alcide Pierantozzi…

Scientists used AI to crack one of water's biggest mysteries

Water covers most of Earth’s surface, yet it behaves in ways that set it apart from nearly every other liquid. One of its most unusual traits is that it expands instead of contracts when it freezes. Scientists have long linked these odd behaviors to changes in water’s microscopic structure as…

Scientists finally crack nature's secret for building better cancer drugs

Scientists have uncovered how bacteria naturally manufacture multiple versions of powerful cancer drugs, solving a mystery that has puzzled researchers for decades. The discovery could help speed the development of new treatments for cancers that are still difficult to treat. For years, scientists have hoped to harness bacterial enzymes to…

Wimbledon: niente semifinali per Paolini e Cobolli – Tennis – Ansa.it

Niente semifinali per Jasmine Paolini e Flavio Cobolli a Wimbledon. L’italiana è stata battuta ai quarti, in due set con il punteggio di 6-3 6-2, dall’ucraina Marta Kostyuk. Cobolli crolla ai quarti e perde con l’inglese Arthur Fery – wild card del torneo – in tre set: 6-4 7-6 6-0…