US Beekeepers Report Abnormally High Summer Losses After Lower Winter Losses
Beekeepers across the United States lost 43.7% of their managed honey bee colonies from April 2019 to April 2020, according to preliminary results of the…
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Evidence Pluto Started Out With Liquid Oceans That Have Been Slowly Freezing Over Time
Evidence Supports ‘Hot Start’ Scenario and Early Ocean Formation on Pluto A new study suggests that Pluto and other large Kuiper belt objects started out…
New High-Precision Technology Cuts Atom-Sized Patterns Into 2D Materials
EPFL researchers have developed a high-precision technology that enables them to carve nanometric patterns into two-dimensional materials. With their pioneering nanotechnology, EPFL researchers have achieved…
The Far Side of the Moon Has a Strange Asymmetry – Scientists Think They Finally Understand Why
Earth’s Moon has a ‘near side’ that is perpetually Earth-facing and a ‘far side’, which always faces away from Earth. The composition of the Moon’s…
Dancing Stars and Black Holes in a Cosmic Cloud of Gas: Investigating the “Common Envelope Phase”
Most massive stars are born in binaries (and sometimes triples, quadruples, and so on—being single isn’t common for such rock stars!) As stars age, they…
What the New Discovery of Ancient Super-Eruptions Indicates for the Yellowstone Hotspot
Throughout Earth’s long history, volcanic super-eruptions have been some of the most extreme events ever to affect our planet’s rugged surface. Surprisingly, even though these…
First Detection of X-Rays From a Newborn Star – Clues to Our Sun’s Earliest Phase of Evolution
Astronomers have reported the first detection of X-rays from the earliest phase of evolution of a star like our Sun. This discovery from NASA’s Chandra…
Quantum Rings in the Hold of Laser Light: Ultracold Atoms Trapped in Surprisingly Complex Structures
Ultracold atoms trapped in appropriately prepared optical traps can arrange themselves in surprisingly complex, hitherto unobserved structures, according to scientists from the Institute of Nuclear…
Massive SLS Rocket Test: NASA to Apply Millions of Pounds of Force to Try to Break Oxygen Tank Structure
NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) Program is concluding its structural qualification test series with one upcoming final test that will push the design for the…
Off the Scales: Fish Armor Both Tough and Flexible – X-Ray Beam Analysis Could Lead to Remarkable Synthetic Materials
High-tech imaging of carp scales by Berkeley Lab scientists reveals remarkable properties that could lead to advanced synthetic materials. Humans have drawn technological inspiration from…
New Insight Into the Great Dying – Earth’s Most Deadly Mass Extinction Event Disrupted Ocean Chemistry
A new study shows for the first time that the collapse of terrestrial ecosystems during Earth’s most deadly mass extinction event was directly responsible for…
New Insight Into the Magnetic Properties of the Black Hole at the Center of Our Galaxy
Like most galaxies, the Milky Way hosts a supermassive black hole at its center. Called Sagittarius A*, the object has captured astronomers’ curiosity for decades….
Shoe Coatings Inspired by Japanese Kirigami Could Improve Traction on Slick Surfaces
Material inspired by Japanese paper-cutting art could help to prevent falls in icy or slippery conditions. Inspired by the Japanese art of paper cutting, MIT…
Showtime for Photosynthesis – Nature Captured in Breakthrough “Molecular Movie”
One of nature’s most important chemical reactions is now being captured in a breakthrough “molecular movie.” Using a unique combination of nanoscale imaging and chemical…
International Astrophysics Collaboration Discovers Quasar Jets Are Particle Accelerators Thousands of Light-Years Long
An international collaboration bringing together over 200 scientists from 13 countries has shown that the very high-energy gamma-ray emission from quasars, galaxies with a highly…
Engineers Design Ion-Based Device That Operates Like an Energy-Efficient Brain Synapse
Ion-based technology may enable energy-efficient simulations of the brain’s learning process, for neural network AI systems. Teams around the world are building ever more sophisticated…
New Origin of Supermassive Black Holes Revealed by Supercomputer Simulation
Computer simulations conducted by astrophysicists at Tohoku University in Japan, have revealed a new theory for the origin of supermassive black holes. In this theory,…
5 Questions Answered: What Are “Murder Hornets” and Are They Really Dangerous?
Editor’s note: According to recent press reports, two Asian giant hornets – a species not known to occur in North America – were found in…
