Super-Earths have long-lasting oceans
This artist's depiction shows a gas giant planet rising over the horizon of an alien waterworld. New research shows that oceans on super-Earths, once...
A new way to produce clean hydrogen fuel from water using sunlight
Transmittance electron microscopic image of the composite photocatalyst with two components, black phosphorus (BP) and graphitic carbon nitride (g-C3N4).
Credit: Osaka University
Hydrogen is the most...
New measurements show widespread forest loss has reversed the role of tropics as a...
Tropical rain forest.
Credit: © Oleksandr Dibrova / Fotolia
A new, cutting-edge approach to measuring changes in aboveground forest carbon density has helped scientists determine that...
How yellow and blue make green in parrots
This photograph shows a collection of green, white, blue, and yellow budgies.
Credit: Thomas Cooke
When it comes to spectacular displays of color, birds are obvious...
Orange is the new green: How orange peels revived a Costa Rican forest
A thousand truckloads of orange peels were unloaded onto a barren pasture in a Costa Rican national park in the mid 1990s. Today, that...
Once declared extinct, Lord Howe Island stick insects really do live
This is an adult female Dryococelus australis on hand.
Credit: Rohan Cleave, Melbourne Zoo
Lord Howe Island stick insects were once numerous on the tiny crescent-shaped...
Building a better blood-brain barrier model
Blood-brain-barrier spheroids present high level of efflux pump (left: green) and tight junctions (center and right: green) on the surface of each spheroid to...
Patient plays saxophone while surgeons remove brain tumor
Brad Mahon, Ph.D., Dan Fabbio, and Web Pilcher, M.D., Ph.D., watching footage of surgery to remove tumor from Fabbio's brain.
Credit: Image courtesy of University...
What does music mean? Sign language may offer an answer
What can sign language teach us about music?
Credit: © whiteshadow18 / Fotolia
How do we detect the meaning of music? We may gain some insights...
Farthest active inbound comet yet seen
This illustration shows the orbit of comet C/2017 K2 PANSTARRS (K2) on its maiden voyage into the solar system. The Hubble Space Telescope observed...
Why does divorce run in families? The answer may be genetics
These findings are notable because they diverge from the predominant narrative in divorce literature, which suggests that the offspring of divorced parents are more...
