A cosmic baby is discovered, and it’s brilliant
Astronomers tend to have a slightly different sense of time than the rest of us. They regularly study events that happened millions or billions...
New quantum sensing technique allows high-resolution nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy
Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy is a widely used tool for chemical analysis and molecular structure recognition. Because it typically relies on the weak...
Astronomers detect regular rhythm of radio waves, with origins unknown
A team of astronomers, including researchers at MIT, has picked up on a curious, repeating rhythm of fast radio bursts emanating from an unknown...
Soap bubbles pollinated a pear orchard without damaging delicate flowers
Soap bubbles facilitated the pollination of a pear orchard by delivering pollen grains to targeted flowers, demonstrating that this whimsical technique can successfully pollinate...
First egg from Antarctica is big and might belong to an extinct sea lizard
In 2011, Chilean scientists discovered a mysterious fossil in Antarctica that looked like a deflated football. For nearly a decade, the specimen sat unlabeled...
Researchers create first room-temp ‘magnon switch’ with industrially useful properties
Scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have demonstrated a potentially new way to...
Researchers unlock clues to a dramatic chapter of Earth’s geological history
Imagine Earth completely covered in ice. While it's hard to picture all of today's oceans and land masses obscured with glaciers, such an ice-covered...
Coal-burning in Siberia led to climate change 250 million years ago
A team of researchers led by Arizona State University (ASU) School of Earth and Space Exploration professor Lindy Elkins-Tanton has provided the first ever...
Honeybee lives shortened after exposure to two widely used pesticides
The lives of honeybees are shortened—with evidence of physiological stress—when they are exposed to the suggested application rates of two commercially available and widely...
Research reveals the chemistry behind the bombardier beetle’s extraordinary firepower
If you want to see one of the wonders of the natural world, just startle a bombardier beetle. But be careful: when the beetles...
New ideas in the search for dark matter
Since the 1980s, researchers have been running experiments in search of particles that make up dark matter, an invisible substance that permeates our galaxy...
