Historical records miss a fifth of global warming: NASA
A new NASA-led study finds that almost one-fifth of the global warming that has occurred in the past 150 years has been missed by...
Some bacteria have lived in the human gut since before we were human
An artist's rendition of bacteria that live in the gut of people and their closest relatives. A new study finds that these microbes have...
Genome of 6,000-year-old barley grains sequenced for first time
Right: Photograph during excavation exhibiting excellent dry preservation of plant remains. Left: A well-preserved, desiccated barley grain found at Yoram Cave. Credit: Uri Davidovich
An...
In gauging and correcting errors, brain plays confidence game, new research shows
The confidence in our decision-making serves to both gauge errors and to revise our approach, New York University neuroscientists have found. Their study offers...
Watching the brain do math
A new Carnegie Mellon University neuroimaging study reveals the mental stages people go through as they are solving challenging math problems.
Published in Psychological Science,...
NASA’s Hubble Looks to the Final Frontier
This view of a massive cluster of galaxies unveils a very cluttered-looking universe filled with galaxies near and far. Some are distorted like a...
NASA Mars Rover Can Choose Laser Targets on Its Own
NASA's Curiosity Mars rover autonomously selects some targets for the laser and telescopic camera of its ChemCam instrument. For example, on-board software analyzed the...
Neanderthals in Germany: First population peak, then sudden extinction
Neanderthal depiction (stock image). Neanderthals lived in the Middle Paleolithic, the middle period of the Old Stone Age. This period encompasses the time from...
World’s most sensitive dark matter detector completes search
Inside view of the LUX detector.Credit: Photo by Matthew Kapust/Sanford Underground Research Facility
The Large Underground Xenon (LUX) dark matter experiment, which operates beneath a...
Super-eruptions may give only a year’s warning before they blow
The Long Valley Caldera in eastern California was created by a super-eruption 760,000 years ago. Credit: NASA/JPL
Super-eruptions – volcanic events large enough to devastate...
North American forests unlikely to save us from climate change
A sub-alpine forest in Colorado. Forests in the southwestern US are expected to be among the hardest-hit, according to the projections resulting from the...
