100 Years of Climate Change Visible in Aerial Photographs of Alpine Glaciers
In 1919, the Swiss pilot and photographer Walter Mittelholzer flew over Mont Blanc in a biplane photographing the alpine landscape. Exactly 100 years later, researchers…
In 1919, the Swiss pilot and photographer Walter Mittelholzer flew over Mont Blanc in a biplane photographing the alpine landscape. Exactly 100 years later, researchers…
Rare skull of 8-foot-long gar discovered in University of Chicago-Field Museum paleontology course. Each summer, the University of Chicago welcomes high school students from around…
Proposed bridge would have been the world’s longest at the time; new analysis shows it would have worked. In 1502 A.D., Sultan Bayezid II sent…
Genetic oscillator records changes in microbiome growth patterns in vivo. For all the attention the human microbiome has been getting over the last few years,…
Radiation detector with the lowest noise in the world boosts quantum work. The nanoscale radiation detector is a hundred times faster than its predecessors, and…
The discovery of ice deposits in craters scattered across the Moon’s south pole has helped to renew interest in exploring the lunar surface, but no…
The center of our galaxy is a crowded place: A black hole weighing 4 million times as much as our Sun is surrounded by millions…
From the intricate patterns of pollen grains to the logarithmic spirals of nautilus shells, biology is full of complex patterns, shapes, and geometries. Many of…
Our Milky Way is a thrifty galaxy. Supernovae and powerful stellar winds eject gas from the galactic disk; nonetheless, this gas returns to the galaxy…
Something called the fast Fourier transform is running on your cell phone right now. The FFT, as it is known, is a signal-processing algorithm that…
Scientists have been captivated by superconductivity for a long time because it has the potential to change existing technology. Only at extremely low temperatures do…
Photon-proton collisions are being used by physicists at Florida State University to capture particles in an undiscovered energy range, revealing fresh insights into the substance…
Since industrialization began 100 years ago, the amount of carbon dioxide in the Earth’s atmosphere has steadily grown, and this is thought to be the…
University of California Riverside-led research shows our galaxy is undergoing a massive merger with its largest satellite galaxy, the Large Magellanic Cloud. Galaxies orbit one…
A mystery that has baffled scientists for more than two decades is being solved by new study on the chemistry of the oceans during ice…
Smallholder poverty in sub-Saharan Africa is often linked to sandy soils, which hold little water and are low in nutrients. New technology may be able…
The life-altering technological breakthroughs of the next several decades, the ones that will revolutionize technology, may be made possible by new materials so tiny that…
The importance of chemistry in next-generation computing and communication has been documented for the first time by a team of Northwestern University academics. They found…