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Underwater telecom cables make superb seismic network
Fiber-optic cables that constitute a global undersea telecommunications network could one day help scientists study offshore earthquakes and the geologic structures hidden deep beneath...
With ultracold chemistry, researchers get a first look at exactly what happens during a...
The coldest chemical reaction in the known universe took place in what appears to be a chaotic mess of lasers. The appearance deceives: Deep...
Indo-Pacific Ocean warming is changing global rainfall patterns
New research by NOAA and a visiting scientist from India shows that warming of the Indo-Pacific Ocean is altering rainfall patterns from the tropics...
New vaccine will stop the spread of bovine tuberculosis
Scientists at the University of Surrey have developed a novel vaccine and complementary skin test to protect cattle against bovine tuberculosis (bovine TB).
Publishing their...
First measures of Earth’s ionosphere found with the largest atmospheric radar in the Antarctic
There's chaos in the night sky about 60 to 600 miles above Earth's surface. Called the ionosphere, this layer of Earth's atmosphere is blasted...
Researchers determine dinosaur replaced teeth as fast as sharks
A meat-eating dinosaur species (Majungasaurus) that lived in Madagascar some 70 million years ago replaced all its teeth every couple of months or so,...
Inbreeding and population/demographic shifts could have led to Neanderthal extinction
Small populations, inbreeding, and random demographic fluctuations could have been enough to cause Neanderthal extinction, according to a study published November 27, 2019 in...
A new theory for how black holes and neutron stars shine bright
For decades, scientists have speculated about the origin of the electromagnetic radiation emitted from celestial regions that host black holes and neutron stars—the most...
Scientists discover unpredicted stellar black hole
An international team headed by Professor LIU Jifeng of the National Astronomical Observatory of China of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (NAOC) spotted a...
Nine climate tipping points now ‘active,’ warn scientists
More than half of the climate tipping points identified a decade ago are now "active", a group of leading scientists have warned.
This threatens the...
New Cretaceous mammal fossil sheds light on evolution of middle ear
Researchers from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH)...
