Oddness of Australian creatures goes way back
Australian creatures like the echidna and the koala are celebrated for their oddness. The fossil record shows that this oddity reaches far back into...
Europe’s largest meteorite crater home to deep ancient life
Fractured rocks of impact craters have been suggested to host deep microbial communities on Earth, and potentially other terrestrial planets, yet direct evidence remains...
More than just whale food: Krill’s influence on carbon dioxide and global climate
Antarctic krill are well-known for their role at the base of the Southern Ocean food web, where they're food for marine predators such as...
Ancient stars shed light on Earth’s similarities to other planets
Earth-like planets may be common in the universe, a new UCLA study implies. The team of astrophysicists and geochemists presents new evidence that the...
Weaving quantum processors out of laser light
An international team of scientists from Australia, Japan and the United States has produced a prototype of a large-scale quantum processor made of laser...
Dark matter tugs the most massive spiral galaxies to breakneck speeds
When it comes to galaxies, how fast is fast? The Milky Way, an average spiral galaxy, spins at a speed of 130 miles per...
New catalyst helps turn carbon dioxide into fuel
Imagine grabbing carbon dioxide from car exhaust pipes and other sources and turning this main greenhouse gas into fuels like natural gas or propane:...
Queuing for eternity: Fossils show lining up is primal urge
Ever felt like you've been queuing forever?
Scientists say fossils found in Morocco suggest the practice of forming orderly lines may date back 480 million...
Study reveals how collapse of protein processes is driver of aging and death
Cells undergo natural aging and death, processes that impact a multitude of cellular factors. A new Stony Brook University-led study, to be published in PNAS,...
Scientists discover fractal patterns in a quantum material
A fractal is any geometric pattern that occurs again and again, at different sizes and scales, within the same object. This "self-similarity" can be...
How human brain development diverged from great apes
Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, Institute of Molecular and Clinical Ophthalmology Basel, and ETH Zurich, Switzerland, have...
