For hottest planet, a major meltdown, study shows
In the scorching atmosphere of exoplanet KELT-9b, even molecules are torn to shreds.
Massive gas giants called "hot Jupiters"—planets that orbit too close to their stars to...
A new twist on quantum communication in fiber
New research done at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa, and Huazhang University of Science and Technology in Wuhan, China, has...
The Blue Acceleration: Recent colossal rise in human pressure on ocean quantified
Human pressure on the world's oceans accelerated sharply at the start of the 21st century and shows no sign of slowing, according to a...
‘Jumping genes’ help stabilize DNA folding patterns
"Jumping genes"—bits of DNA that can move from one spot in the genome to another—are well-known for increasing genetic diversity over the long course...
NASA’s Kepler witnesses vampire star system undergoing super-outburst
NASA's Kepler spacecraft was designed to find exoplanets by looking for stars that dim as a planet crosses the star's face. Fortuitously, the...
Study: Activism and civil disobedience help communicate the science of climate change
A group of the world's top climate change biologists, including Professor Pete Smith from the University of Aberdeen, have published an editorial highlighting how...
On the way to quantum networks
Physicists at LMU, together with colleagues at Saarland University, have successfully demonstrated the transport of an entangled state between an atom and a photon...
Scientists capture molecular maps of animal tissue with unprecedented detail
We've all heard, and seen, how a picture paints a thousand words. Now, in a scientific twist on that saying, researchers at the Florida...
Simulations reveal galaxy clusters details
Inspired by the science fiction of the spacefaring Romulans of Star Trek, astrophysicists have used XSEDE-allocated supercomputers to develop cosmological computer simulations called RomulusC,...
New species of Allosaurus discovered in Utah
A remarkable new species of meat-eating dinosaur has been unveiled at the Natural History Museum of Utah. Paleontologists unearthed the first specimen in early...
Surprise discovery shakes up our understanding of gene expression
A group of University of Chicago scientists has uncovered a previously unknown way that our genes are made into reality.
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