Biological invisibility cloak: Elucidating cuttlefish camouflage
The unique ability of cuttlefish, squid and octopuses to hide by imitating the colors and texture of their environment has fascinated natural scientists since...
Working lands play a key role in protecting biodiversity
With a body the size of a fist and wings that span more than a foot, the big brown bat must gorge on 6,000...
Unprecedented look at electron: Size limit for undiscovered subatomic particles determined
A new study suggests that many theorized heavy particles, if they exist at all, do not have the properties needed to explain the predominance...
Massive organism is crashing on our watch
Utah State University researchers Paul Rogers and Darren McAvoy have conducted the first complete assessment of the Pando aspen clone and the results show...
Discovering a previously unknown role for a source of magnetic fields
Magnetic forces ripple throughout the universe, from the fields surrounding planets to the gasses filling galaxies, and can be launched by a phenomenon called...
Researchers confirm Earth’s inner core is solid
A new study by researchers at The Australian National University (ANU) could help us understand how our planet was formed.
Associate Professor Hrvoje Tkalčić and...
Breakthrough in accessing the tiny magnet within the core of a single atom
Researchers at the Center for Quantum Nanoscience (QNS) within the Institute for Basic Science (IBS) in South Korea have made a major scientific breakthrough...
Scientists discover first high-temperature single-molecule magnet
A team of scientists led by Professor Richard Layfield at the University of Sussex has published breakthrough research in molecule-based magnetic information storage materials.
The...
Sculpting bacteria into extreme shapes reveals the rugged nature of cell division
What do watermelons and bacteria have in common? Just like the tasty fruit, microbes can be molded into unusual shapes, a study in Nature...
Vast leukemia dataset could help researchers match therapies to patients
After years of work, researchers are releasing a massive dataset detailing the molecular makeup of tumor cells from more than 500 patients with an...
Arctic greening thaws permafrost, boosts runoff
A new collaborative study has investigated Arctic shrub-snow interactions to obtain a better understanding of the far north's tundra and vast permafrost system. Incorporating...
