Ultraviolet Shines Light on Origins of Our Solar System
In the search to discover the origins of our solar system, an international team of researchers, including planetary scientist and cosmochemist James Lyons of Arizona…
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American Pikas Far More Resilient in the Face of Global Warming Than Previously Believed
The American pika is a charismatic, diminutive relative of rabbits that some researchers say is at high risk of extinction due to climate change. Pikas…
Are Male Genes From Mars, Female Genes From Venus? Sex Differences in Health and Disease
Males and females share the vast majority of their genomes. Only a sprinkling of genes, located on the so-called X and Y sex chromosomes, differ…
Rare Dragon DNA: Sequencing the Genome of an Ancient Reptile
New Zealand is home to an astonishingly rich web of life, with many indigenous plant and animal species found nowhere else on Earth. Even amid…
Carbon-Rich Exoplanets May Be Made of Diamonds – “Unlike Anything in Our Solar System”
As missions like NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, TESS, and Kepler continue to provide insights into the properties of exoplanets (planets around other stars), scientists are…
A New Twist on DNA Origami: Meta-DNA Structures Transform the DNA Nanotechnology World
A team* of scientists from ASU and Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU) led by Hao Yan, ASU’s Milton Glick Professor in the School of Molecular…
New Fossil Ape Discovered in India Fills Major Gaps in the Primate Fossil Record
The 13-million-year-old gibbon ancestor fills major gaps in the primate fossil record. A 13-million-year-old fossil unearthed in northern India comes from a newly discovered ape,…
Cosmic Detective Work: Asteroid Fragments May Have Jumped the Gap in the Early Solar System
Using some cosmic detective work, a team of researchers has found evidence that tiny pieces of asteroids from the inner solar system may have crossed…
Tracking California’s Sinking Coast From Space: San Francisco, Monterey Bay, Los Angeles, and San Diego Majorly Affected
A majority of the world population lives on low lying lands near the sea, some of which are predicted to submerge by the end of…
Coal-Burning in Siberia 250 Million Years Ago Led to Climate Change & Caused the Earth’s Most Severe Extinction Event
A team of researchers led by Arizona State University School of Earth and Space Exploration Professor Lindy Elkins-Tanton has provided the first ever direct evidence that extensive…
Canine Science Study: Yes, Your Dog Wants to Rescue You
ASU Canine Science Collaboratory study shows that pet dogs will try to save their distressed human, as long as they know how. What to do….
Classical Novae – A Class of Stellar Explosions – Discovered to Be Galactic Producers of Lithium
A team of researchers, led by astrophysicist Sumner Starrfield of Arizona State University (ASU), has combined theory with both observations and laboratory studies and determined…
Physics Process Yielding Nanolasers in 2D Semiconductors Could Be Game-Changer for High Speed Communications
When something just works, that’s usually a good thing. But for scientists and engineers, when something works and they don’t understand the mechanism behind it,…
New Detectability Index Aids Search for Extraterrestrial Life on Exoplanets
Whether there is life elsewhere in the universe is a question people have pondered for millennia, and within the last few decades, great strides have…
Archaeologists Uncover a Lost World and Extinct Ecosystem
Archaeological sites on the far southern shores of South Africa hold the world’s richest records for the behavioral and cultural origins of our species. At…
Scientists Rewire Photosynthesis to Fuel Our Future
Hydrogen is an essential commodity with over 60 million tons produced globally every year. However over 95 percent of it is made by steam reformation…
Making Sense of the Viral Multiverse: Situating Coronaviruses Within Mind-Bendingly Vast Virosphere
In November of 2019—likely, even earlier—a tiny entity measuring just a few hundred billionths of a meter in diameter began to tear apart human society…
Tracking a Lethal Menace: Novel Coronavirus Detected, Monitored in Wastewater
Within weeks of arriving on the world stage, SARS-CoV-2 has managed to encircle the globe, leaving illness, mortality and economic devastation in its vast wake….