Are friends better for us than family?
“Friendships become even more important as we age,” said William Chopik, a Michigan State University assistant professor of psychology whose study suggests friendships may...
Domes of frozen methane may be warning signs for new blow-outs
500m wide and 10m high, the methane domes on the Arctic Ocean floor are containing huge amounts of methane.
Credit: Pavel Serov/CAGE
"Every year we go...
New data for old bones: How the famous Cleveland-Lloyd dinosaur bone bed came to...
Indiana University of Pennsylvania students Josh Colastante, Alex Patch, and Heather Furlong excavate Allosaurus bones from the Cleveland-Lloyd Dinosaur Quarry.
Credit: Joe Peterson
The Cleveland-Lloyd Dinosaur...
Meals on the go: The physics of baleen whales’ eating habits
Humpback whales.
Credit: © Nancy / Fotolia
In a recent paper published in PLOS One, Saint Louis University professor of physics Jean Potvin, Ph.D., and biologist...
New discovery: Cormorants can hear under water
The research cormorant Loke.
Credit: University of Southern Denmark
For the first time, researchers have shown that a marine birds can hear under water. This offers...
Breaking Newton’s Law
Innsbruck physicists have observed an intriguing oscillatory back-and-forth motion of a quantum particle in a one-dimensional atomic gas.
Credit: Florian Meinert
A ripe apple falling from...
Physicist builds on Einstein and Galileo’s work
In the new quantum test of the Einstein equivalence principle, free fall of atoms in quantum superpositions on different mass-energies, |a> and |b>, was...
Jupiter’s Great Red Spot is smaller than ever seen before
Jupiter's monster storm, the Great Red Spot, was once so large that three Earths would fit inside it. But new measurements by NASA's Hubble...
Tactile sensor gives robots new capabilities
A GelSight sensor attached to a robot's gripper enables the robot to determine precisely where it has grasped a small screwdriver, removing it from...
Hubble’s tale of two exoplanets: Nature vs. nurture
This diagram compares Hubble Space Telescope observations of two "hot Jupiter"-class planets orbiting very closely to different sunlike stars. Astronomers measured how light from...
Why rocks flow slowly in Earth’s middle mantle
As slabs of Earth's crust decend into the mantle, they encounter a zone about 1,100 kilometers down where the mantle rock abruptly becomes stiffer,...
