The secret social lives of giant poisonous rats
The African crested rat (Lophiomys imhausi) is hardly the continent's most fearsome-looking creature -- the rabbit-sized rodent resembles a gray puffball crossed with a...
Sky survey reveals newborn jets in distant galaxies
Astronomers using data from the ongoing VLA Sky Survey (VLASS) have found a number of distant galaxies with supermassive black holes at their cores...
Researchers have succeeded in directly observing the formation and interaction of highly ionized krypton...
The last decade has been marked by a series of remarkable discoveries identifying how the universe is composed. It is understood that the mysterious...
Vibrations of coronavirus proteins may play a role in infection
When someone struggles to open a lock with a key that doesn't quite seem to work, sometimes jiggling the key a bit will help....
Researchers create first map of bee species around the globe
There are over 20,000 species of bee, but accurate data about how these species are spread across the globe are sparse. However, researchers reporting...
Going beyond the anti-laser may enable long-range wireless power transfer
Ever since Nikola Tesla spewed electricity in all directions with his coil back in 1891, scientists have been thinking up ways to send electrical...
Chromosomes look different than you think
In high school textbooks, human chromosomes are pictured as wonky Xs like two hotdogs jammed together. But those images are far from accurate. "For...
Versatile building blocks make structures with surprising mechanical properties
Researchers at MIT's Center for Bits and Atoms have created tiny building blocks that exhibit a variety of unique mechanical properties, such as the...
In the mysterious Blue Ring Nebula, scientists see the fate of binary stars
Scientists have discovered a rare object called the Blue Ring Nebula, a ring of hydrogen gas with a star at its center. The properties...
Researchers describe previously unknown mechanism for inducing electron emission in highly oriented pyrolitic graphite
It is something quite common in physics: electrons leave a certain material, they fly away and then they are measured. Some materials emit electrons,...
Greenland’s largest glaciers likely to melt faster than feared: study
The three largest glaciers in Greenland—which hold enough frozen water to lift global sea levels some 1.3 metres—could melt faster than even the worst-case...
