Researchers explain slow-moving earthquakes known as ‘slow slip events’
The Earth's subsurface is an extremely active place, where the movements and friction of plates deep underground shape our landscape and govern the intensity...
Salt deposits on Mars hold clues to sources of ancient water
For centuries, miners have burrowed into the earth in search of salt—laid down in thick layers from ancient oceans long since evaporated. When scientists...
Quantum gravity’s tangled time
The theories of quantum mechanics and gravity are notorious for being incompatible, despite the efforts of scores of physicists over the past fifty years....
Researchers developing natural pesticide alternative to target pests without harming honeybees
A natural, sustainable alternative to pesticides that targets specific pests, without harming beneficial pollinators such as honeybees, is being developed with the help of...
20-million-year-old skull suggests complex brain evolution in monkeys, apes
It has long been thought that the brain size of anthropoid primates—a diverse group of modern and extinct monkeys, humans, and their nearest kin—progressively...
Study identifies main culprit behind lithium metal battery failure
A research team led by the University of California San Diego has discovered the root cause of why lithium metal batteries fail—bits of lithium...
Scientists discover stardust in Antarctic snow
A team of scientists hauled 500 kilograms of fresh snow back from Antarctica, melted it, and sifted through the particles that remained. Their analysis...
Mathematical framework turns any sheet of material into any shape using kirigami cuts
Researchers from the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have developed a mathematical framework that can turn any sheet...
Origin of massive methane reservoir identified
New research from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) published Aug. 19, 2019, in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science provides evidence of the formation...
World’s first link layer protocol brings quantum internet closer to a reality
Researchers from QuTech have achieved a world's first in quantum internet technology. A team led by Professor Stephanie Wehner has developed a so-called link...
Climate change may change the way ocean waves impact 50% of the world’s coastlines
The rise in sea levels is not the only way climate change will affect the coasts. Our research, published today in Nature Climate Change, found a...
