The notorious luminous blue variable star
Sparkling with an exceptional blue-toned brilliance and exhibiting wild variations in both brightness and spectrum, the luminous blue variable (LBV) is a relatively rare...
Ledumahadi mafube—South Africa’s new jurassic giant
A new species of a giant dinosaur has been found in South Africa's Free State Province. The plant-eating dinosaur, named Ledumahadi mafube, weighed 12...
Scientists discover genetic basis for how harmful algal blooms become toxic
A team led by scientists from Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego and the J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI)...
Neanderthals were no brutes – research reveals they may have been precision workers
Neanderthals were until quite recently often seen as simple-minded savages – powerful hunters with a short attention span. But in the last few years,...
Superconducting metamaterial traps quantum light
Conventional computers store information in a bit, a fundamental unit of logic that can take a value of 0 or 1. Quantum computers rely...
Microplastics are being overlooked in river ecosystems, 50 percent of freshwater insects contaminated
Research led by Cardiff University's School of Biosciences has revealed that microplastics are widespread in insects from South Wales rivers.
Microplastic fragments—pieces of plastic debris...
Your Facebook friends don’t mean it, but they’re likely hurting you daily: study
Social media sites often present users with social exclusion information that may actually inhibit intelligent thought, according to the co-author of a University at...
Ice age discovery may reveal early migration route of first Americans
A group of researchers have discovered the retreat of an ancient ice sheet from the western coast of Canada occurred earlier than previously thought.
Dr....
Microbial dark matter dominates Earth’s environments
Uncultured microbes—those whose characteristics have never been described because they have not yet been grown in a lab culture—could be dominating nearly all the...
Breakthrough in designing a better Salmonella vaccine
UC Davis researchers announce in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences this week a breakthrough in understanding which cells afford optimal protection...
Tiny soft robot with multilegs paves way for drugs delivery in human body
A novel tiny, soft robot with caterpillar-like legs capable of carrying heavy loads and adaptable to adverse environment was developed from a research led...
