On Mars or Earth, biohybrid can turn carbon dioxide into new products
If humans ever hope to colonize Mars, the settlers will need to manufacture on-planet a huge range of organic compounds, from fuels to drugs,...
New method predicts which black holes escape their galaxies
Shoot a rifle, and the recoil might knock you backward. Merge two black holes in a binary system, and the loss of momentum gives...
When warblers warn of cowbirds, blackbirds get the message
This is the story of three bird species and how they interact. The brown-headed cowbird plays the role of outlaw: It lays its eggs...
Mystery solved: The origin of the colors in the first color photographs
A palette of colors on a silver plate: That is what the world's first color photograph looks like. It was taken by French physicist...
Physicists weigh in on the origin of heavy elements
A long-held mystery in the field of nuclear physics is why the universe is composed of the specific materials we see around us. In...
New explanation for sudden collapses of heat in plasmas can help create fusion energy...
Scientists seeking to bring the fusion that powers the sun and stars to Earth must deal with sawtooth instabilities—up-and-down swings in the central pressure...
Sturgeon genome sequenced
Sometimes referred to as the "the Methuselah of freshwater fish," sturgeons and their close relatives are very old from an evolutionary point of view....
Oldest-ever human genetic evidence clarifies dispute over our ancestors
Genetic information from an 800,000-year-old human fossil has been retrieved for the first time. The results from the University of Copenhagen shed light on...
Landmark study concludes marine life can be rebuilt by 2050
An international study recently published in the journal Nature, led by KAUST Professors Carlos Duarte and Susana Agustí, lays out the essential roadmap of actions...
Traces of ancient rainforest in Antarctica point to a warmer prehistoric world
Researchers have found evidence of rainforests near the South Pole 90 million years ago, suggesting the climate was exceptionally warm at the time.
A team...
The architecture of a ‘shape-shifting’ norovirus
Every picture tells a story... none more so than this detailed visualisation of a strain of the norovirus.
Created from 13,000 separate images taken by...
