Accelerated glacier melting in West Antarctica documented
For a pair of recent studies, UCI and NASA JPL scientists examined three neighboring glaciers in West Antarctica that are melting and retreating at...
New species of extremely leggy millipede discovered in a cave in California
The new species (Illacme tobini) of extremely leggy millipede from a Sequoia National Park cave.Credit: Paul Marek, Virginia Tech; CC-BY 4.0
Along with many spiders,...
World’s largest study shows effects of long-term exposure to air pollution and traffic noise...
Air pollution and traffic noise have been linked to high blood pressure. Credit: © sgym662114114 / Flickr
Long-term exposure to air pollution is linked to...
More than 50% of Americans now have at least one chronic health condition, mental...
Credit: Flickr/keoni101
With the future of US healthcare likely to rest on the next presidency, a new study from Psychology, Health & Medicine highlights just...
Changing Colors in Saturn’s North
Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute/Hampton University
These two natural color images from NASA's Cassini spacecraft show the changing appearance of Saturn's north polar region between...
How even our brains get ‘slacker’ as we age
New research from Newcastle University, UK, in collaboration with the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, investigated the way the human brain folds and...
Microsoft researchers reach human parity in conversational speech recognition
Microsoft researchers from the Speech & Dialog research group include, from back left, Wayne Xiong, Geoffrey Zweig, Xuedong Huang, Dong Yu, Frank Seide, Mike...
Massive cyberattack poses policy dilemma, scholar says
The coordinated cyber attack that crippled parts of the internet on Friday highlighted key policy problems, a Stanford cybersecurity scholar said.
And while the problems...
Turning CO2 to Stone
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory scientists have developed ways to relatively quickly turn carbon dioxide captured from power plants to a solid for long-term storage. Peter...
Scientists discover particles similar to Majorana fermions
The braiding of Majorana zero modes is shown. Credit: LI et. al
Majorana fermions were first proposed by the physicist Ettore Majorana in 1937. They...
3-D printed metamaterial shrinks when heated
LLNL researchers were part of a team that demonstrated a bi-material microlattice structure, 3D printed from polymer and a polymer/copper composite material, that can...
