Humans Implicated in Africa’s Deforestation 3,000 Years Ago
A new study published in the journal Science suggests that humans might have played a significant part in the sudden deforestation of rainforests from Central…
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Researchers Focus on Using High-Energy Electrons to Treat Cancer
Researchers are working on new technology that could dramatically reduce the time needed for cancer radiation treatments. By using high-energy electrons for radiation therapy, the…
Lidar Equipment Provides Comprehensive Pictures Earthquake Zones
Geologists are using new airborne lidar equipment to study earthquakes and provide comprehensive before-and-after pictures earthquake zones. The lidar (light detection and ranging) equipment can…
Research Shows Roughly 150 Billion Tons of Ice Lost Annually
Recent research from the University of Colorado Boulder, in a joint effort with NASA, shows that regions of Greenland and Antarctica are shedding roughly 148…
Asia and America Will Collide in Millions of Years to Form Supercontinent Amasia
In the next 50 to 200 million years, all of Earth’s continents will be once again pushed together into a single landmass around the North…
World’s Smallest Primate Issues High-Frequency Calls Like Bats
It was recently discovered by a team of scientists that the Philippine tarsier (Tarsius syrichta) can communicate in pure ultrasound, issuing calls that are so…
Higgs Boson Signals Gain Strength at Large Hadron Collider
In December, it was announced that the two main experiments at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), which is still the world’s largest and highest-energy particle…
Working To Save Infants, Researchers Transform Stem Cells Into Cells That Form Blood Vessels
In an effort to help infants born with congenital heart defects, a team of researchers at Texas Children’s Hospital and Rice University have transformed stem…
Researchers Complete Genome Sequence of a Denisovan Human Finger Bone
Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology have completed the genome sequence of a Denisovan human finger bone that was discovered in Denisova…
MIT Researchers Use Mathematical Model to Predict Speed of Spreading Valleys
Researchers in MIT’s Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences (EAPS) have developed a mathematical model that gauges how fast the Apalachicola Bluffs and valleys…
HIV Vaccine Approved for Human Clinical Trials
Dr. Chil-Yong Kang and his team at The University of Western Ontario have been studying HIV for the last twenty years and working on a…
Researchers Discover ‘Supergiant’ Amphipods in the Kermadec Trench
Researchers from the University of Aberdeen and the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA) discovered ‘supergiant’ amphipods while exploring the Kermadec Trench, north…
Researchers Develop Method for Making High-Temperature Photonic Crystals
Researchers at MIT have developed a new power source by making a high-temperature version of materials called photonic crystals. By using metals such as tungsten…
Previously Unknown Hominin Discovered In Denisova Cave in Siberia
The Denisova Cave, perched high in the Altai Mountains of southern Siberia, has been a large natural shelter for humans and animals for tens of…
“Mediocre to Awful” State Science Standards Could Jeopardize U.S. Competitiveness
A new report from the Thomas B. Fordham Institute on the United States K-12 state science standards reports that “the majority of the states’ standards…
Researchers Use Computer Simulations to Better Understand Spider Silk
Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the Politecnico di Torino in Italy have published a new study examining how spider webs respond…
The Bolshoi Simulation: Boxing the Universe
The Bolshoi simulation is the most accurate cosmological simulation of the evolution of the large-scale structure of the universe. Larger simulations, including the BigBolshoi and…
Scientists Use Ultra-Short Pulses of Terahertz Laser Light to Manipulate Magnetism
Scientists working at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory’s Linear Coherent Light Source (LCLS) discovered a way to distort the atomic arrangement and change the magnetic…
