Archaeologists on ancient horse find in Nile River Valley
An ancient horse burial at Tombos along the Nile River Valley shows that a member of the horse family thousands of years ago was...
Gaia creates richest star map of our Galaxy—and beyond
ESA's Gaia mission has produced the richest star catalogue to date, including high-precision measurements of nearly 1.7 billion stars and revealing previously unseen details...
Cheap 3-D printer can produce self-folding materials
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have used an inexpensive 3-D printer to produce flat plastic items that, when heated, fold themselves into predetermined shapes,...
New microscope captures detailed 3-D movies of cells deep within living systems
Our window into the cellular world just got a whole lot clearer.
By combining two imaging technologies, scientists can now watch in unprecedented 3-D detail...
Fungus senses gravity using gene borrowed from bacteria
The pin mold fungus Phycomyces blakesleeanus forms a dense forest of vertically growing fruiting bodies, but how does it know which way is "up"?...
Research gives new ray of hope for solar fuel
A team of Renewable Energy experts from the University of Exeter has pioneered a new technique to produce hydrogen from sunlight to create a...
Land use and pollution shift female-to-male ratios in snapping turtles
Most of us know that our biological sex is decided by the pairing of X and Y chromosomes during conception.
However, for many wildlife species,...
Milky Way’s supermassive black hole may have ‘unseen’ siblings
Astronomers are beginning to understand what happens when black holes get the urge to roam the Milky Way.
Typically, a supermassive black hole (SMBH) exists...
Engineered Chinese shrub produces high levels of antimalarial compound
Artemisinin is a potent antimalarial compound produced naturally by the Chinese shrub Artemisia annua, commonly known as sweet wormwood. Currently,however, the low amount of...
Found: A new form of DNA in our cells
It's DNA, but not as we know it.
In a world first, Australian researchers have identified a new DNA structure -- called the i-motif --...
Researchers measure a record concentration of microplastic in Arctic sea ice
Experts at the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) have recently found higher amounts of microplastic in Arctic sea...
