Category: Technology
Rock record illuminates oxygen history
A new study reveals that the aerobic nitrogen cycle in the ocean may have occurred about 100 million years before oxygen began to ...
Birds nested in Arctic alongside dinosaurs
Spring in the Arctic brings forth a plethora of peeps and downy hatchlings as millions of birds gather to raise their young. The s...
Leprosy existed in America long before arrival of ...
Long considered a disease brought to the Americas by European colonizers, leprosy may actually have a much older history on the Am...
Anthropologists spotlight human toll of glacier lo...
Anthropologists have examined the societal consequences of global glacier loss. This article appears alongside new research that e...
New quantum visualization technique to identify ma...
Scientists have developed a powerful new tool for finding the next generation of materials needed for large-scale, fault-tolerant ...
Sustained in the brain: How lasting emotions arise...
Humans and mice share persistent brain-activity patterns in response to adverse sensory experience, scientists find, opening a win...
Listening to electrons talk
Researchers present new experimental and theoretical results for the bound electron g-factor in lithium-like tin which has a much ...
Save twice the ice by limiting global warming
A new study finds that if global warming exceeds the Paris Climate Agreement targets, the non-polar glacier mass will diminish sig...
Long shot science leads to revised age for land-an...
The fossils of ancient salamander-like creatures in Scotland are among the most well-preserved examples of early stem tetrapods --...
Scientists discover new evidence of intermediate-m...
A series of studies sheds light on the origins and characteristics of intermediate-mass black holes.
Daytime boosts immunity, scientists find
Daylight can boost the immune system's ability to fight infections.
Controlling quantum motion and hyper-entanglement
A new experiment encodes quantum information in the motion of the atoms and creates a state known as hyper-entanglement, in which ...
New biosensor solves old quantum riddle
Researchers united insights from cellular biology, quantum computing, old-fashioned semiconductors and high-definition TVs to both...
An artificial protein that moves like something fo...
Proteins catalyze life by changing shape when they interact with other molecules. The result is a muscle twitching, the perception...
Why after 2000 years we still don't know how tickl...
How come you can't tickle yourself? And why can some people handle tickling perfectly fine while others scream their heads off? Ne...
New fuel cell could enable electric aviation
Engineers developed a fuel cell that offers more than three times as much energy per pound compared to lithium-ion batteries. Powe...
Oldest whale bone tools discovered
Humans were making tools from whale bones as far back as 20,000 years ago, according to a new study. This discovery broadens our u...
Megalodon: The broad diet of the megatooth shark
Contrary to widespread assumptions, the largest shark that ever lived -- Otodus megalodon -- fed on marine creatures at various le...
A dental floss that can measure stress
Scientists create a floss pick that samples cortisol within saliva as a marker of stress and quantifies it with a built-in electro...
Cryogenic hydrogen storage and delivery system for...
Researchers have designed a liquid hydrogen storage and delivery system that could help make zero-emission aviation a reality. The...
