Scientists find another use for lizards’ versatile tails: stabilization after headfirst crashes. A gecko’s tail is a wondrous and versatile thing. In more than 15…
Half a century of allowing lightning fires to burn in Yosemite’s Illilouette Creek Basin has created a lost forest ecosystem that is far more resilient…
Berkeley-based project could support action worldwide on climate, health, and poverty. More than 700 imaging satellites are orbiting the earth, and every day they beam…
Frequent, rapid testing for COVID-19 is critical to controlling the spread of outbreaks, especially as new, more transmissible variants emerge. While today’s gold standard COVID-19…
Adding absorbent nanoparticles to polymer membranes simplifies desalination. University of California, Berkeley, chemists have discovered a way to simplify the removal of toxic metals. like…
Model of how Earth’s inner core froze into solid iron implies it may be only 500 million years old. For reasons unknown, Earth’s solid-iron inner…
Juvenile tyrannosaurs tested their chops as they grew to become bone crushers like their parents. Jack Tseng loves bone-crunching animals — hyenas are his favorite…
Polymer-eating enzymes embedded in plastic allow programmed degradation. Biodegradable plastics have been advertised as one solution to the plastic pollution problem bedeviling the world, but…
Analysis of what’s known about the dinosaur leads to conclusion there were 2.5 billion over time. How many Tyrannosaurus rexes roamed North America during the…
How fast is the universe expanding? Galaxies provide one answer. Determining how rapidly the universe is expanding is key to understanding our cosmic fate, but…
New research throws wide open the amount of information that can be simultaneously transmitted by a single light source. Researchers at the University of California,…
Gaia survey provides location and motion of 1.3 million binary pairs within 3,000 light years of Earth. The latest star data from the Gaia space…
Falling incomes, smaller meals, educational setbacks among the consequences. The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic last year led to a devastating loss of jobs and…
Apart from black holes, magnetars may be the most extreme stars in the universe. With a diameter less than the length of Manhattan, they pack…
Astronomers confirm bound orbit for planet far from its star, showing that far-flung planets exist. Astronomers are still searching for a hypothetical “Planet Nine” in…
Analysis of Steamboat Geyser also finds relationship between column height and reservoir depth. When Yellowstone National Park’s Steamboat Geyser — which shoots water higher than…
At a time when nativism is on the rise, study reveals the universality of human emotional expression. Whether at a birthday party in Brazil, a…
Two fossils from a group of extinct seabirds represent the largest individuals ever found. Fossils recovered from Antarctica in the 1980s represent the oldest giant…
