Home 2018
Yearly Archives: 2018
Hurricanes: Stronger, slower, wetter in the future?
Scientists have developed a detailed analysis of how 22 recent hurricanes would be different if they formed under the conditions predicted for the late...
Major fossil study sheds new light on emergence of early animal life 540 million...
All the major groups of animals appear in the fossil record for the first time around 540-500 million years ago -- an event known...
Study casts doubt on traditional view of pterosaur flight
Most renderings and reconstructions of pterodactyls and other extinct flying reptiles show a flight pose much like that of bats, which fly with their...
Universal pH regulated assembly of DNA nanostructures
DNA, the carrier of genetic information, has become established as a highly useful building material in nanotechnology. One requirement in many applications is the...
Team puts the optical microscope under the microscope to achieve atomic accuracy
Over the last two decades, scientists have discovered that the optical microscope can be used to detect, track and image objects much smaller than...
Why birds don’t have teeth
Why did birds lose their teeth? Was it so they would be lighter in the air? Or are pointy beaks better for worm-eating than...
Malaria-causing parasite manipulates liver cells to survive
When the malaria-causing Plasmodium parasite first slips into the human bloodstream, injected by the bite of an infected mosquito, it does not immediately target...
Tunable diamond string may hold key to quantum memory
A quantum internet promises completely secure communication. But using quantum bits or qubits to carry information requires a radically new piece of hardware—a quantum...
Technique doubles conversion of CO2 to plastic component
Fossil fuels have long been the precursor to plastic, but new research from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and European collaborators could help send that...
Fluid dynamics may play key role in evolution of cooperation
Believe it or not—it's in our nature to cooperate with one another, even when cheating may be more profitable. Social cooperation is common in...
CRISPR-edited rice plants produce major boost in grain yield
A team of scientists from Purdue University and the Chinese Academy of Sciences has used CRISPR/Cas9 gene-editing technology to develop a variety of rice...
