Mysterious holes in Antarctic sea ice explained by years of robotic data
The winter ice on the surface of Antarctica's Weddell Sea occasionally forms an enormous hole. A hole that appeared in 2016 and 2017 drew...
Ancient DNA from Roman and medieval grape seeds reveal ancestry of wine making
A grape variety still used in wine production in France today can be traced back 900 years to just one ancestral plant, scientists have...
Astronomers determine mass of small black hole at center of nearby galaxy
If astronomers want to learn about how supermassive black holes form, they have to start small—really small, astronomically speaking.
In fact, a team including University...
Engineers use graph networks to accurately predict properties of molecules and crystals
Nanoengineers at the University of California San Diego have developed new deep learning models that can accurately predict the properties of molecules and crystals....
Mass anomaly detected under the moon’s largest crater
A mysterious large mass of material has been discovered beneath the largest crater in our solar system—the Moon's South Pole-Aitken basin—and may contain metal...
Climate change may shift timing of summer thunderstorms
Climate change could affect the regularity of summer afternoon thunderstorms in some parts of the world, according to new research.
A new study in the...
Scorpions adapt their stinging, stingers and sting contents to minimize costs of venom use
Replenishing venom takes time and energy—so it pays to be stingy with stings.
According to researchers at the Australian National Institute of Tropical Health and...
How acids behave in ultracold interstellar space
A research group from Ruhr-Universität Bochum has investigated how acids interact with water molecules at extremely low temperatures. Using spectroscopic analyses and computer simulations,...
Site of biggest ever meteorite collision in the UK discovered
Evidence for the ancient, 1.2 billion years old, meteorite strike, was first discovered in 2008 near Ullapool, NW Scotland by scientists from Oxford and...
Researchers discover meat-eating plant in Ontario, Canada
Call it the "Little Bog of Horrors." In what is believed to be a first for North America, biologists at the University of Guelph...
Older forests resist change—climate change, that is
Older forests in eastern North America are less vulnerable to climate change than younger forests—particularly for carbon storage, timber production, and biodiversity—new University of...
