New research shows an iceless Greenland may be in our future
New research shows an iceless Greenland may be in the future. If worldwide greenhouse gas emissions remain on their current trajectory, Greenland may be...
Study finds any single hair from the human body can be used for identification
Any single hair from anywhere on the human body can be used to identify a person.
This conclusion is one of the key findings from...
Astronomers make first detection of polarised radio waves in Gamma Ray Burst jets
Good fortune and cutting-edge scientific equipment have allowed scientists to observe a Gamma Ray Burst jet with a radio telescope and detect the polarisation...
Learning constrains further learning, neuroscientists find
Why is it that a master musician can learn a new score in no time, yet encounter difficulty learning something else, like skateboarding tricks?...
56 new species of arachnids found in Western Australia
Researchers at The University of Western Australia and the Western Australian Museum have discovered 56 new species of arachnids, known as schizomids, in Western...
Leaving microbes out of climate change conversation has major consequences, experts warn
More than 30 microbiologists from 9 countries have issued a warning to humanity—they are calling for the world to stop ignoring an 'unseen majority'...
New Earth-like exoplanets discovered around red dwarf Teegarden star
An international team led by the University of Göttingen (Germany) with participation by researchers from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) have discovered,...
Engineers boost output of solar desalination system by 50%
Rice University's solar-powered approach for purifying salt water with sunlight and nanoparticles is even more efficient than its creators first believed.
Researchers in Rice's Laboratory...
ALMA finds earliest example of merging galaxies
Researchers using ALMA (Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array) observed signals of oxygen, carbon, and dust from a galaxy in the early Universe 13 billion years...
Ring resonators corner light
Researchers at the Joint Quantum Institute (JQI) have created the first silicon chip that can reliably constrain light to its four corners. The effect,...
Rising methane may thwart efforts to avoid catastrophic climate change
If the world were on track to meet the Paris Agreement goal of less than 2 degrees Celsius of global warming, methane levels in...
