Tiny Magnetic Particles in Microscopic Fossils Record Ancient Climate Conditions
Fifty-six million years ago, as the Earth’s climate warmed by five to eight degrees C, new land mammals evolved, tropical forests expanded, giant insects and…
Fifty-six million years ago, as the Earth’s climate warmed by five to eight degrees C, new land mammals evolved, tropical forests expanded, giant insects and…
Within the next decade, the novel coronavirus responsible for COVID-19 could become little more than a nuisance, causing no more than common cold-like coughs and…
Theoretical method can make objects invisible to a thermal camera, or mimic a different object. Can you feel the heat? To a thermal camera, which…
Today, the rocks of the Hanna Formation in south-central Wyoming are hundreds of miles away from the nearest ocean. But around 58 million years ago,…
Method of generating quasipatterns may lead to customizable materials. Mathematicians and engineers at the University of Utah have teamed up to show how ultrasound waves…
If you were to visit the Great Basin and Colorado Plateau a thousand years ago, you’d find conditions remarkably familiar to the present. The climate…
Misinformation in public debates about scientific issues such as vaccinations and climate change can be found all over the internet, especially on social media. In…
Researchers use 3-D-printed models to explore fractal-like interior shell patterns. Ammonoids, ancestors of today’s octopus, squid, and cuttlefish, bobbed and jetted their way through the…
If you live with seasonal allergies and feel like the pollen seasons feel longer and longer every year, you may be right. New research shows…
There are fossils, found in ancient marine sediments and made up of no more than a few magnetic nanoparticles, that can tell us a whole…
Study of individual SARS-CoV-2-like particle degradation suggests a potential surge of COVID-19 infections in the winter. Winter is coming in the northern hemisphere on Monday,…
Scientific analysis of an ancient portrait pigment reveals long-lost artistic details. How much information can you get from a speck of purple pigment, no bigger…
Our Energy Hunger Is Tethered to Our Economic Past Just as a living organism continually needs food to maintain itself, an economy consumes energy to…
Hotspots have trended towards smaller but more numerous clusters since the pandemic started. Over the course of the coronavirus epidemic, COVID-19 outbreaks have hit communities…
An international team reveals discoveries about an unusual time called the “Carnian Pluvial Episode.” The Triassic Period, about 252 to 201 million years ago, was…
Infalling gas found, star-forming galaxies likely primary energy source of Lyman-alpha radiation emitted from gigantic hydrogen gas blobs. Billions of lightyears away, gigantic clouds of…
New technology poised to drastically reduce weight, complexity and cost of cameras while increasing functionality. Using a single lens that is about one-thousandth of an…
You can’t see them, but most of the metals around you—coins, silverware, even the steel beams holding up buildings and overpasses—are made up of tiny…