Viruses that evolved on the space station and were sent back to Earth were more effective at killing bacteria

Scientists brought bacteria and phages, meaning viruses that infect bacteria, aboard the ISS to study their evolution. (Image credit: International space station (dima_zel/Getty Images); E.coli (Shutterstock)) Bacteria and the viruses that infect them, called phages, are locked in an evolutionary arms race. But that evolution follows a different trajectory when the battle takes place inContinue Reading

JWST’s ‘Little Red Dots’ May Be ‘Black Hole Stars’

January 14, 2026 4 min read Add Us On Google Add SciAm ‘Little Red Dots’ Spied by JWST May Be Baby Black Holes in Disguise Puzzling red spots in images from the James Webb Space Telescope are probably young supermassive black holes obscured by dense cocoons of gas By Lee Billings edited by Clara MoskowitzContinue Reading

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A dock is a dock, right? A line of icon shortcuts for quick access to your apps. The Multi-Column Dock extension for GNOME 45-47 takes that simple idea, but adds organisational features. A GitHub description describes this as: “a customizable multi-column dock for GNOME Shell Keep your apps neatly organizedContinue Reading