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Plate tectonics not needed to sustain life
There may be more habitable planets in the universe than we previously thought, according to Penn State geoscientists, who suggest that plate tectonics—long assumed...
Research solves a 160-year-old mystery about the origin of skeletons
Scientists at The University of Manchester and the University of Bristol have used powerful X-rays to peer inside the skeletons of some of our...
Homo sapiens developed a new ecological niche that separated it from other hominins
Critical review of growing archaeological and palaeoenvironmental datasets relating to the Middle and Late Pleistocene (300-12 thousand years ago) hominin dispersals within and beyond...
World’s biggest king penguin colony shrinks 90 percent
When two Sun-like stars collide, the result can be a spectacular explosion and the formation of an entirely new star. One such event was...
Mars terraforming not possible using present-day technology
Science fiction writers have long featured terraforming, the process of creating an Earth-like or habitable environment on another planet, in their stories. Scientists themselves...
Nano-optic endoscope sees deep into tissue at high resolution
The diagnosis of diseases based in internal organs often relies on biopsy samples collected from affected regions. But collecting such samples is highly error-prone...
Carbon ‘leak’ may have warmed the planet for 11,000 years, encouraging human civilization
The oceans are the planet's most important depository for atmospheric carbon dioxide on time scales of decades to millenia. But the process of locking...
Blue crystals in meteorites show that our Sun went through the ‘terrible twos’
Our Sun's beginnings are a mystery. It burst into being 4.6 billion years ago, about 50 million years before the Earth formed. Since the...
New algorithm could help find new physics—inverse method takes wave functions and solves for...
Scientists at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have developed an algorithm that could provide meaningful answers to condensed matter physicists in their searches...
Researchers review the rapid progress in machine learning for the chemical sciences
A new tool is drastically changing the face of chemical research – artificial intelligence. In a new paper published in Nature, researchers review the...
Cooking oil coating prevents bacteria from growing on food processing equipment
Many foods produced on an industrial scale include raw ingredients mixed together in enormous stainless steel machines that can be difficult to clean. With...
