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Most-distant solar system object ever observed
A team of astronomers has discovered the most-distant body ever observed in our Solar System. It is the first known Solar System object that...
Looking for LUCA, the last universal common ancestor
Around 4 billion years ago there lived a microbe called LUCA: the Last Universal Common Ancestor. There is evidence that it could have lived...
Research confirms political views predict whether people trust false information about dangers, even after...
The results of the U.S. presidential election in 2016 created a unique opportunity for a team of UCLA researchers.
Back in 2015, the investigators analyzed...
Machine learning-detected signal predicts time to earthquake
Machine-learning research published in two related papers today in Nature Geoscience reports the detection of seismic signals accurately predicting the Cascadia fault's slow slippage,...
Scientists design new material to harness power of light
Scientists have long known that synthetic materials—called metamaterials—can manipulate electromagnetic waves such as visible light to make them behave in ways that cannot be...
Mobius kaleidocycles: Sensational structures with potential applications
Kaleidocycles are found where science, math, and art meet. The objects resemble geometric sculptures that might be found in a modern art museum, but...
The full story on climate change requires the long view
The science is clear that human activities over the last century have contributed to greenhouse-like warming of the Earth's surface. Much of the global...
Nature’s sweets: Borrowing a natural recipe for sugar synthesis
Today, sugar has a villainous reputation. And while too much of the sweet stuff should be avoided, all living things need sugar to survive....
NASA research reveals Saturn is losing its rings at ‘worst-case-scenario’ rate
New NASA research confirms that Saturn is losing its iconic rings at the maximum rate estimated from Voyager 1 & 2 observations made decades...
Baboon sexes differ in how social status gets ‘under the skin’
A growing body of evidence shows that those at the bottom of the socioeconomic ladder are more likely to die prematurely than those at...
New discovery pushes origin of feathers back by 70 million years
An international team of palaeontologists, which includes the University of Bristol, has discovered that the flying reptiles, pterosaurs, actually had four kinds of feathers,...
