New Evidence Shows Humans Mastered Fire Earlier Than Thought
New study on early human fire acquisition squelches debate. Fire starting is a skill that many modern humans struggle with in the absence of a…
New study on early human fire acquisition squelches debate. Fire starting is a skill that many modern humans struggle with in the absence of a…
Astronomers have pieced together the cannibalistic past of our neighboring large galaxy Andromeda, which has now set its sights on the Milky Way as its…
A joint research team from Google Inc., NASA Ames Research Center, and the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory has demonstrated that a quantum…
A Florida State University research team has developed methods to manipulate polymers in a way that changes their fundamental structure, paving the way for potential…
A mega-merger of four galaxy clusters in Abell 1758 has been observed by Chandra and other telescopes. Abell 1758 contains two pairs of galaxy clusters,…
Salk scientists discover how microprotein PIGBOS could be a target for cancer. As the tools to study biology improve, researchers are beginning to uncover details…
Did an extraterrestrial impact trigger the extinction of ice-age animals? University of South Carolina archaeologist finds evidence in South Carolina to support controversial theory. A…
Update 10/28/19: There is a New Satellite Image of California’s Kincaid Fire. NASA’s Terra satellite captured an image of the Kincaid wildfire located in Northern…
This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows IC 4653, a galaxy just over 80 million light-years from Earth. That may sound like quite…
PRISMA+ and HIM scientists report the latest findings of the CASPEr research program in Science Advances. A team led by Prof Dmitry Budker has continued…
A new paper from scientists at The University of Manchester has discovered why some volcanic eruptions are more explosive than others. Basaltic eruptions are the…
Chemists from the University of Basel have succeeded in synthesizing two complex natural products from the group of dithiodiketopiperazines (DTPs). For this, they employed a…
Materials scientists who work with nano-sized components have developed ways of working with their vanishingly small materials. But what if you could get your components…
Novel applications of a technology called coaxial electrospinning could improve contraceptive products and help. When you visit Andrew Steckl’s lab at the University of Cincinnati,…
Pax, Latin for ‘peace’ made its way into the scientific name of a new coral discovered off Pacific Panama and described in the journal Bulletin…
Scientists observe year-long plateaus in decline of type Ia supernova light curves, which is a surprising finding as astronomers had expected that the light curve…
Current approaches to carbon capture can increase air pollution and are not efficient at reducing carbon in the atmosphere, according to research from Mark Z….
With a new process developed at TU Wien (Vienna), living cells can be integrated into fine structures created in a 3D printer — extremely fast…