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Paleontologists discover largest dinosaur foot ever
The Black Hills region of the United States is famous today for tourist attractions like Deadwood and Mount Rushmore, but around 150 million years...
Gault site research pushes back date of earliest North Americans
For decades, researchers believed the Western Hemisphere was settled by humans roughly 13,500 years ago, a theory based largely upon the widespread distribution of...
‘Ribbon’ wraps up mystery of Jupiter’s magnetic equator
The discovery of a dark ribbon of weak hydrogen ion emissions that encircles Jupiter has overturned previous thinking about the giant planet's magnetic equator.
An...
Liquid water is buried beneath Martian landscape, study says
A massive underground lake has been detected for the first time on Mars, raising the possibility that more water—and maybe even life—exists there, international...
New class of materials could be used to make batteries that charge faster
Researchers have identified a group of materials that could be used to make even higher power batteries. The researchers, from the University of Cambridge,...
Pieces of mantle found rising under north and south ends of Cascadia fault
With four years of data from 268 seismometers on the ocean floor and several hundred on land, researchers have found anomalies in the upper...
Team shatters theoretical limit on bio-hydrogen production
In 1977, researcher Rudolf Thauer proposed a theoretical ceiling on the amount of hydrogen that bacteria could produce via fermentation, the sugar-converting process also...
World-first quantum computer simulation of chemical bonds using trapped ions
An international group of researchers has achieved the world's first multi-qubit demonstration of a quantum chemistry calculation performed on a system of trapped ions,...
Bats harbor a gene swiped from an ancient Ebola-like virus—here’s how they may use...
Some 18 million years ago, an ancestor of mouse-eared bats "stole" genetic material from an ancient virus related to Ebola.
The swiped genetic sequence —...
A mathematical view on cell packing
A key challenge in the embryonic development of complex life forms is the correct specification of cell positions so that organs and limbs grow...
Radiation maps of Jupiter’s moon Europa—key to future missions
New comprehensive mapping of the radiation pummeling Jupiter's icy moon Europa reveals where scientists should look—and how deep they'll have to go—when searching for...
