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Inside the 6-year process of turning American football fields into World Cup pitches
As the World Cup kicks off across North America, a team of turfgrass experts has spent six years engineering perfect natural-grass playing surfaces for all 16 host stadiums — including venues that normally use artificial turf.
Researchers are learning more about ‘Zosia,’ the 17th century ‘vampire’ buried with a blade over her neck
With a sickle across her neck and a padlock on her left big toe, the corpse of a young woman found in northern Poland would have been unable to rise from her unmarked grave, according to local 17th century folklore. But her identity and how she ended up in such a state are secrets researchers say they are just beginning to unlock.
Nobel Prize in medicine goes to two American biologists for work on the discovery of microRNA
The 2024 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine has been awarded to US scientists Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun for their work on the discovery of microRNA, a molecule that governs how cells in the body function.