Rubric 01
Science
What we know, what we are learning, and what the labs are not telling you.
193Science
Chinas Academic Hat System Creates Winners and Left Behind
China has quite deliberately concentrated its brightest minds and its scarcest resources into a small number of hands. That is not a thought experiment. It is the operating logic behind China's academic "hats"...
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194Science
Juno star trackers link Mars dust to zodiacal light
The Juno spacecraft was designed to study Jupiter. Its instruments were built to measure the giant planet's magnetic field, its gravity, its deep atmosphere. Nothing about that mission plan involved the dust that fills...
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195Science
Ancient Forest Loss Warns of Modern Climate Risk
Around 56 million years ago, the amount of carbon dioxide in Earth's atmosphere climbed sharply. 3] The result was severe global warming that reshaped the planet's surface. Forests thinned out across vast regions. This...
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196Science
Mosquitoes Expanding Faster Than Surveillance Maps Can Track
The UK Health Security Agency issued a warning earlier this month: travellers heading abroad for the summer holidays should protect themselves against mosquito borne diseases. That advisory is not a seasonal ritual. It...
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197Science
Fire Clouds Force Rethink of Storm Science
Wildfires in Oregon and France have grown large enough to generate pyrocumulonimbus clouds enormous storm systems that form in the hot updraft of major fires. 1] These clouds produce wind and lightning, worsening...
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198Science
Quantum Computing Inc Bets on Room Temperature Entropy
For decades, the central problem in quantum computing was not building a qubit. It was keeping one alive. A quantum bit stores information in a fragile superposition, and the slightest interaction with its surroundings...
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199Science
Two progenitor cell types rewrite brain development model
For decades, the dominant picture in developmental neuroscience held that one kind of starter cell a single type of progenitor gives rise to the entire brain. That picture is now under pressure. Experiments reported in...
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200Science
How a Grant Turns Scientists Into Managers
Anna Sandak submitted a research proposal to the European Research Council in April 2021, after six months of intensive writing, revising and reshaping an idea she had been refining for years. 2] The ERC is part of the...
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201Science
Arthropods likely made honeycomb fossil not worms
For more than 150 years, the honeycomb shaped pattern pressed into ancient marine sediments had a comfortable explanation. Soft, wormlike creatures made it. That explanation no longer holds up. A new analysis argues the...
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202Science
Metformin and Paxlovid May Prevent Long COVID
Metformin was designed to lower blood sugar in people with type 2 diabetes. It has been a cornerstone of diabetes care for decades. Nobody developed it with a coronavirus in mind. Nirmatrelvir ritonavir, sold as...
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203Science
Museum Rebuilds Lost World Through Stimulated Memory
A lost world sits behind glass, and the visitors standing before it are being asked to remember something they never lived through. The exhibition presents a stimulated memory exhibition a display built not from...
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204Science
Open Peer Review Linked to Fewer Retractions
At first glance, the finding sounds backwards. A paper whose review reports sit in public view would be expected to attract more scrutiny, more challenges, more retractions. The opposite appears to be true. Papers with...
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