Learning from mussels: New way to make stronger, more stretchy polymers
Mussels on a rock.
Credit: Image courtesy of University of California - Santa Barbara
A wide range of polymer-based materials, from tire rubber and wetsuit neoprene...
Scientists detect comets outside our solar system
An artist’s conception of a view from within the Exocomet system KIC 3542116.
Credit: Danielle Futselaar
Scientists from MIT and other institutions, working closely with amateur...
Scientists begin bold conservation effort to save the vaquita porpoise from extinction
A floating sea pen is anchored off the coast of San Felipe, Mexico where vaquitas will temporarily be held.
Credit: Kerry Coughlin/National Marine Mammal Foundation
An...
Climate change threatens to worsen U.S. ozone pollution
Los Angeles (stock image). Visible pollutants can react with sunlight to create invisible ozone pollution, which frequently reaches unhealthy levels in major cities like...
How future volcanic eruptions will impact Earth’s ozone layer
Volcanic eruptions could result in ozone depletion until 2070 or beyond, despite declining concentrations of human-made CFCs.
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The next major volcanic...
Ozone layer above North Pole expected to recover by end of century
Strong ozone depletion in the cold polar vortex above the Arctic on 2 April 2011. Many of the processes that cause ozone depletion in...
Big-nosed, long-horned dinosaur discovered in Utah: Dinosaur in same family as Triceratops
This image shows an artist rendition of Nasutoceratops.
Credit: Lukas Panzarin
A remarkable new species of horned dinosaur has been unearthed in Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument,...
New horned dinosaur reveals evolution of nose horn in Triceratops family
This is a ife reconstruction of Wendiceratops pinhornensis.
Credit: Danielle Dufault
Scientists have discovered a striking new species of horned dinosaur (ceratopsian) based on fossils collected...
Scientists track the brain-skull transition from dinosaurs to birds
These are CT scan images of the skull roof (front bone in pink, parietal in green) and brain (in blue) of, top to bottom,...
Blood test can effectively rule out breast cancer, regardless of breast density
Pink breast cancer awareness ribbon.
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A new study published in PLOS ONE demonstrates that Videssa® Breast, a multi-protein biomarker blood...
Neuroscientists improve human memory by electrically stimulating brain
A new study suggests that even low currents of electricity can affect the brain circuits that control memory and human learning. (stock image)
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