Cleaning up the clutter: How proto-biology arose from the prebiotic clutter
Just like the mythical creation stories that depict the formation of the world as the story of order from chaos, the early Earth was...
Prehistoric food globalization spanned three millennia
Since the beginning of archaeology, researchers have combed the globe searching for evidence of the first domesticated crops. Painstakingly extracting charred bits of barley,...
Scientists study organization of life on a planetary scale
When we think of life on Earth, we might think of individual examples ranging from animals to bacteria. When astrobiologists study life, however, they...
Rattlesnake venom: Mild, medium and wicked hot
In a surprising evolutionary twist, a new study suggests that while one rattlesnake may routinely feast on lizard meat, its seemingly identical neighbor snake...
Novel experiment validates widely speculated mechanism behind the formation of stars
How have stars and planets developed from the clouds of dust and gas that once filled the cosmos? A novel experiment at the U.S....
Centuries-old population movements revealed in fine-scale genetic map of the Iberian Peninsula
A new study into the genetic makeup of over 1,400 individuals from across Spain has shown that the genetic patterns in modern individuals were...
Giant impacts caused by interplanetary collisions
Astronomers have found fresh evidence for significant planetary diversity within a single exoplanet system, suggesting that giant high-speed collisions are partly responsible for planetary...
Scientists find new and smaller CRISPR gene editor: CasX
In a mere seven years, Cas9 has shown itself to be a formidable gene editor, employed in humans, plants, animals and bacteria to quickly...
Dinosaur that defended itself with spiny backbone found in Patagonia
The discovery of the new species of dicraeosauridae, christened Bajadasaurus pronuspinax, was revealed in Scientific Reports.
A reproduction of its spiny neck was exhibited in...
Researchers develop new method to reduce quantum noise
In a recent issue of Physical Review A, Argonne researchers reported a new method for alleviating the effects of "noise" in quantum information systems,...
Culprit found for honeybee deaths in California almond groves
It's about time for the annual mass migration of honeybees to California, and new research is helping lower the chances the pollinators and their...
