Atlantic Ocean may get a jump-start from the other side of the world
A key question for climate scientists in recent years has been whether the Atlantic Ocean's main circulation system is slowing down, a development that...
Croc-like carnivores terrorized Triassic dinosaurs in southern Africa 210 million years ago
Giant, predatory croc-like animals that lived during the Triassic period in southern Africa preyed on early dinosaurs and mammal relatives 210 million years ago....
DNA is held together by hydrophobic forces
Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, have disproved the prevailing theory of how DNA binds itself. It is not, as is generally believed,...
Is theory on earth’s climate in the last 15 million years wrong?
A key theory that attributes the climate evolution of the Earth to the breakdown of Himalayan rocks may not explain the cooling over the...
Graphene is 3-D as well as 2-D
Graphene is actually a 3-D material as well as a 2-D material, according to a new study from Queen Mary University of London.
Realising that...
Antimicrobial resistance is drastically rising
The world is experiencing unprecedented economic growth in low- and middle-income countries. An increasing number of people in India, China, Latin America and Africa...
US and Canada have lost more than 1 in 4 birds in the past...
A study published today in the journal Science reveals that since 1970, bird populations in the United States and Canada have declined by 29 percent, or...
The best of two worlds: Magnetism and Weyl semimetals
Imagine a world in which electricity could flow through the grid without any losses or where all the data in the world could be...
The next agricultural revolution is here
As a growing population and climate change threaten food security, researchers around the world are working to overcome the challenges that threaten the dietary...
Where to park your car, according to math
Just as mathematics reveals the motions of the stars and the rhythms of nature, it can also shed light on the more mundane decisions...
Did a common childhood illness take down the Neanderthals?
It is one of the great unsolved mysteries of anthropology. What killed off the Neanderthals, and why did Homo sapiens thrive even as Neanderthals withered to...
