A material already known for its unique behavior is found to carry current in...
Scientists at the Florida State University-headquartered National High Magnetic Field Laboratory have discovered a behavior in materials called cuprates that suggests they carry current...
Nanotube ‘rebar’ makes graphene twice as tough
Rice University researchers have found that fracture-resistant "rebar graphene" is more than twice as tough as pristine graphene.
Graphene is a one-atom-thick sheet of carbon....
Modern Flores Island pygmies show no genetic link to extinct ‘hobbits’
Two pygmy populations on the same tropical island. One went extinct tens of thousands of years ago; the other still lives there. Are they...
Widespread giant African cobra revealed to be five distinct species
Cobras are among the most widely known venomous snakes, and yet a new research paper has revealed that what was thought to be a...
Scientists draw new connections between climate change and warming oceans
It happened once before, and it could happen again.
That's the warning from ocean scientists at the University of Toronto and the University of California,...
Degrading plastics revealed as source of greenhouse gases
Researchers from the University of Hawai'i at M?noa School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology (SOEST) discovered that several greenhouse gases are emitted...
After 60 years, scientists uncover how thalidomide produced birth defects
More than 60 years after the drug thalidomide caused birth defects in thousands of children whose mothers took the drug while pregnant, scientists at...
Climate change-driven droughts are getting hotter, study finds
Dry months are getting hotter in large parts of the United States, another sign that human-caused climate change is forcing people to encounter new...
Innovative technique converts white fat to brown fat
Brown fat tissue in the body can burn enormous amounts of energy to generate heat, and studies in humans and animals have suggested that...
Scientists identify exoplanets where life could develop as it did on Earth
Scientists have identified a group of planets outside our solar system where the same chemical conditions that may have led to life on Earth...
First global survey of soil genomics reveals a war between fungi and bacteria
Soil is full of life, essential for nutrient cycling and carbon storage. To better understand how it functions, an international research team led by...
