Mystery of how black widow spiders create steel-strength silk webs further unravelled
Researchers at Northwestern University and San Diego State University (SDSU) have better unraveled the complex process of how black widow spiders transform proteins into...
How to mass produce cell-sized robots
Tiny robots no bigger than a cell could be mass-produced using a new method developed by researchers at MIT. The microscopic devices, which the...
Better cardiorespiratory fitness leads to longer life
Cleveland Clinic researchers have found that better cardiorespiratory fitness leads to longer life, with no limit to the benefit of aerobic fitness.
Researchers retrospectively studied...
New Caledonian crows can create compound tools
An international team of scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology in Seewiesen, Germany, and the University of Oxford have revealed that New...
A first ‘snapshot’ of the complete spectrum of neutrinos emitted by the sun
About 99 percent of the Sun's energy emitted as neutrinos is produced through nuclear reaction sequences initiated by proton-proton (pp) fusion in which hydrogen...
Crater that killed the dinosaurs reveals how broken rocks can flow like liquid
Sixty-six million years ago, an asteroid the size of a small city smashed into the earth. This impact, the one that would lead to...
Mathematicians propose new hunting model to save rhinos and whales from extinction
Mathematicians have created a new model—of a variety commonly found in the world of finance—to show how to harvest a species at an optimal...
Groundbreaking new technology could allow 100-times-faster internet by harnessing twisted light beams
Broadband fiber-optics carry information on pulses of light, at the speed of light, through optical fibers. But the way the light is encoded at...
Electricity in Martian dust storms helps to form perchlorates
The zip of electricity in Martian dust storms helps to form the huge amounts of perchlorate found in the planet's soils, according to new...
Astronomers spot signs of supermassive black hole mergers
New research, published today in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, has found evidence for a large number of double supermassive...
Student discovers slowest ever pulsar star
An approximately 14 million year old pulsar star that is the "slowest-spinning" of its kind ever identified has been discovered by a Ph.D. student...
