Wing shape helps swifts glide through storms, study suggests
Common swift.
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They are among nature's best fliers, spending most of their time in flight ... now scientists have...
You and some ‘cavemen’ get a genetic checkup
Charted data clearly illustrate a progressive improvement over the millennia in the genetic foundations of health, in nearly all diseases examined. Smaller...
Confederate submarine crew killed by their own weapon
Civil War-era submarine (stock image).
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The H.L. Hunley, the first combat submarine to sink an enemy ship, also instantly...
New microbe has potential to help rebalance Earth’s nitrogen cycle
This microbe, nitrospira inopinata, could hold the answers for rectifying Earth’s nitrogen problem.
Credit: Dimitri Kits
New research from University of Alberta and University...
Dolphin that existed along South Carolina coast long ago
A rendering of the toothless dwarf dolphin, according to the researcher's findings.
Credit: Copyrighted by Robert Boessenecker
Continuing to uncover fossil evidence along the...
Self-powered paper-based ‘SPEDs’ may lead to new medical-diagnostic tools
This new paper-based diagnostic device detects biomarkers and identifies diseases by performing electrochemical analyses, and the assays change color to...
Turning human waste into plastic, nutrients could aid long-distance space travel
Astronauts could someday benefit from recycling human waste on long space trips (photo illustration).
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Cyborg bacteria outperform plants when turning sunlight into useful compounds
Artist's rendering of bioreactor (left) loaded with bacteria decorated with cadmium sulfide, light-absorbing nanocrystals (middle) to convert light, water and...
Designing custom robots in a matter of minutes
This is a full robot set.
Credit: MIT CSAIL
Even as robots become increasingly...
Ancient Earth’s hot interior created ‘graveyard’ of continental slabs
New findings suggest the ancient Earth harbored a mantle that was much more efficient at drawing down pieces of the...
Trace of galaxies at the heart of a gigantic galaxy cluster
The central region of the Perseus galaxy cluster. The mosaic image is composed of many "tiles" of long-exposure images taken...
