Global Mercury Contamination and Warming When Dinosaurs Perished
The impact of an asteroid or comet is acknowledged as the principal cause of the mass extinction that killed off most dinosaurs and about three-quarters…
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Anti-Predator Evolution: Lazy Moths Taste Disgusting
New Insights Into Uranium Chemistry Can Aid Geological Disposal of Radioactive Waste
Supermassive Black Hole at the Center of Our Galaxy May Not Be Alone
Smaller Class Sizes Not Always Better for Academic Performance and Achievement
Air Pollution Is Breaking Our Hearts: Particulate Matter Leads to Thousands of Deaths per Year
8,500-Year-Old Human Teeth Used As Jewelry Discovered at Prehistoric Archaeological Site
New Ghost Imaging Nanoscopy Approach Captures the Details of Processes Occurring in Living Cells
Enzyme Discovered in Algae Can Convert Waste Cooking Oil Into Ready-to-Use Biofuel
New Flexible Transparent Solar Cells Could Be Used in Buildings, Vehicles and Portable Electronics
Freestanding Microwire-Array Enables Flexible Solar Windows TSCs are emerging devices that combine the advantages of visible transparency and light-to-electricity conversion. One of the valuable prospective…
Extreme Solar Events and the Search for Habitable Exoplanets
Exoplanets are planets that orbit stars outside the Solar System Some exoplanets are thought to have liquid water on their surface and therefore the potential…
New Photonics Breakthrough Could Lead to Unprecedented Internet Data Speeds
A new approach to trapping light in artificial photonic materials by a City College of New York-led team could lead to a tremendous boost in…
Tortoises Have Amazing Long-Term Memory and Greatly Underestimated Intelligence
Described as “living rocks,” giant land tortoises are lumbering beasts with a reputation for being sluggish in both speed and brainpower. But new research carried…
New Photonic pH Sensor Tracks Lab-Grown Tissue – Helps Advance Toward Growing Limbs and Organs
Tracking lab-grown tissue with light: New proof-of-concept photonic pH sensor could advance studies of tissue regeneration. Someday, doctors would like to grow limbs and other…
New 3D-Printed Lattice Designs Are Ultra-Lightweight and Ultra-Stiff, Despite Breaking the Rules
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) researchers have designed a new class of 3D-printed lattice structures that combine lightweight and high stiffness, despite breaking a rule…
Brain Circuit Linked to Food Impulsivity Discovered – May Lead to Therapeutics That Curb Overeating
Researchers discover brain circuit linked to food impulsivity. This creates the possibility scientists can someday develop therapeutics to address overeating. You’re on a diet, but…
Mystery of Easter Island’s Moai: Unearthing the Meaning of the Ancient Monoliths
Rapanui people likely believed the ancient monoliths helped food grow on the Polynesian island, study reveals. Rapa Nui (or Easter Island, as it is commonly…
Astrophysicists Discover a Neutron Star With a Bizarre Magnetic Field
Scientists from Moscow Institute for Physics and Technology, Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IKI), and Pulkovo Observatory discovered a unique neutron…