This wearable device camouflages its wearer no matter the weather
Researchers at the University of California San Diego developed a wearable technology that can hide its wearer from heat-detecting sensors such as night vision...
Scientists shed light on mystery of dark matter
Scientists have identified a sub-atomic particle that could have formed the "dark matter" in the Universe during the Big Bang.
Up to 80% of the...
Half of world’s beaches could vanish by 2100
Climate change and sea level rise are currently on track to wipe out half the world's sandy beaches by 2100, researchers warned Monday.
Even if...
Reef-building coral exhibiting ‘disaster traits’ akin to the last major extinction event
A study published Tuesday in Scientific Reports shows that stony corals, which provide food and shelter for almost a quarter of all ocean species, are preparing...
Milky Way’s warp caused by galactic collision, Gaia suggests
Astronomers have pondered for years why our galaxy, the Milky Way, is warped. Data from ESA's star-mapping satellite Gaia suggest the distortion might be...
To bee, or not to bee, a question for almond growers
Pollination by bees is vital even when crops are assumed to be pollinator independent. That's according to a study co-authored by Ethel Villalobos, a...
To predict an epidemic, evolution can’t be ignored
When scientists try to predict the spread of something across populations—anything from a coronavirus to misinformation—they use complex mathematical models to do so. Typically,...
Early Earth may have been a ‘waterworld’
Kevin Costner, eat your heart out. New research shows that the early Earth, home to some of our planet's first lifeforms, may have been...
Carbon chains adopt fusilli or spaghetti shapes if they have odd or even numbers
Helical shapes are very familiar in the natural world and, at the molecular level, of DNA, the very blueprint of life itself.
Scientists at the...
Two stars merged to form massive white dwarf
A massive white dwarf star with a bizarre carbon-rich atmosphere could be two white dwarfs merged together according to an international team led by...
Fish school by randomly copying each other, rather than following the group
Fish school by copying each other and changing directions randomly, rather than calculating and adapting to an average direction of the group, a group...
