Why Are Mountains So High? Mysterious Anomaly Exposes Limits of Conventional Theory
Over millions of years, Earth’s summits and valleys have moved and shifted, resulting in the dramatic landscapes of peaks and shadows we know today. Mountains…
Over millions of years, Earth’s summits and valleys have moved and shifted, resulting in the dramatic landscapes of peaks and shadows we know today. Mountains…
Scientists estimate surrogate-raised otters and their wild offspring account for more than half of the sea otter population growth over the past 15 years; now…
Bee biodiversity barometer on Fiji — New species described as environment changes The biodiversity buzz is alive and well in Fiji, but climate change, noxious…
Opioid use is increasing in pregnancy as well as in the general population. A “Five things to know about …” practice article on opioid disuse…
In people with diabetes, fat mass index, not body mass index (BMI), is associated with a higher risk of cardiovascular events, according to new research…
Note: This article and headline were updated on September 29, 2019, to clarify the impact of the research. Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden,…
Physicists at Uppsala University have identified how to distinguish between true and ‘fake’ Majorana states in one of the most commonly used experimental setups, by…
The conductivity of Graphene has made it a target for many researchers seeking to exploit it to create molecular-scale devices and now a research team…
An international team of scientists has announced a breakthrough in its quest to measure the mass of the neutrino, one of the most abundant, yet…
Second fastest spinning radio pulsar known is a gamma-ray pulsar, too. Multi-messenger observations look closely at the system and raise new questions. An international research…
Discovery of unusual new mineral called goldschmidtite poses curious questions about Earth’s mantle. A new and curious mineral has been discovered by University of Alberta…
Ancient, distinct, continent-sized regions of rocks, isolated since before the collision that created the Moon 4.5 billion years ago, exist hundreds of miles below the…
Our understanding of comets is linked to knowing our solar system’s early composition. A new study led by a University of Central Florida researcher may…
Venus may have been a temperate planet hosting liquid water for 2-3 billion years, until a dramatic transformation starting over 700 million years ago resurfaced…
Differences in the molecular structures explain the different colors of this bioluminescence in different species. This discovery has the potential for new biotechnological applications, such…
SUNCAT researchers discover a way to improve a key step in these conversions, and explore what it would take to turn the climate-changing gas into…
Gravitational wave ‘tones’ detected following the merger of two black holes confirm the decades-old ‘no-hair theory’ of black hole properties. For the first time, astrophysicists…
Just as mathematics reveals the motions of the stars and the rhythms of nature, it can also shed light on the more mundane decisions of…