How High-Fat Diets Make Liver Cells More Likely to Become Cancerous

One of the biggest risk factors for developing liver cancer is a high-fat diet. A new study from MIT reveals how a fatty diet ...

Technique Allows Us to Track Drugs Inside the Body

When you take a drug, where in your body does it actually go? For most medications, scientists can make only educated guesses ...

Study Forces Rethink of What Drives Solar Winds

Starlight and stardust are not enough to drive the powerful winds of giant stars, transporting the building blocks of life ...

Why Molecular Biology Labs Are Almost Always Stocked With Salmon Sperm DNA

Pipettes? Check. Centrifuges? Check. Microplates? Check. Gloves? Check. Salmon sperm DNA? Check. Wait what? There are a ...

The Universe May Be Lopsided

The shape of the universe is not something we often think about. But my colleagues and I have published a new study suggests ...

An Argument That the Moon Is a Planet

This video is about how the International Astronomical Union's definition for a planet is flawed, even if you take it at face ...

What Gives the Smokies Their Blue Smoke?

The Great Smoky Mountains is the most visited national park in the United States. Located on the border of Tennessee and ...

Is Artificial General Intelligence Coming in 2026?

Every AI company is trying to build towards artificial general intelligence, or AGI. But how long will it actually take AI firms to build human-level intelligence? Let’ ...

Subir Sarkar

The shape of the universe is not something we often think about. But my colleagues and I have published a new study suggests it could be asymmetric or lopsided, meaning not the same ...