Cheetahs’ inner ear is one-of-a-kind, vital to high-speed hunting
The world's fastest land animal, the cheetah, is a successful hunter not only because it is quick, but also because it can hold an...
Natural telescope sets new magnification record
Extremely distant galaxies are usually too faint to be seen, even by the largest telescopes. But nature has a solution: gravitational lensing, predicted by...
It sounds like music to my … brain!
It may sound like sci-fy, but mind reading equipment are much closer to become a reality than most people can imagine. A new study...
Astrophysicists discover planets in extragalactic galaxies using microlensing
A University of Oklahoma astrophysics team has discovered for the first time a population of planets beyond the Milky Way galaxy. Using microlensing --...
Scientists discover ‘chiral phonons’ – atomic rotations in a 2-D semiconductor crystal
A research team from the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) has found the first evidence that a shaking motion in...
Radiocarbon dating reveals mass grave did date to the Viking age
A team of archaeologists, led by Cat Jarman from the University of Bristol's Department of Anthropology and Archaeology, has discovered that a mass grave...
Bacteria play critical role in driving colon cancers
Patients with an inherited form of colon cancer harbor two bacterial species that collaborate to encourage development of the disease, and the same species...
Researchers observe electrons zipping around in crystals
The end of the silicon age has begun. As computer chips approach the physical limits of miniaturization and power-hungry processors drive up energy costs,...
Toward end of Ice Age, human beings witnessed fires larger than dinosaur killers
On a ho-hum day some 12,800 years ago, the Earth had emerged from another ice age. Things were warming up, and the glaciers had...
In wine, there’s health: Low levels of alcohol good for the brain
While a couple of glasses of wine can help clear the mind after a busy day, new research shows that it may actually help...
Polar bears finding it harder to catch enough seals to meet energy demands
A new study finds polar bears in the wild have higher metabolic rates than previously thought, and as climate change alters their environment a...
