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Substance found in fossil fuels can transform into pure diamond
It sounds like alchemy: take a clump of white dust, squeeze it in a diamond-studded pressure chamber, then blast it with a laser. Open...
Researchers create new state of light
For 20 years, researchers have studied how light rotates around a longitudinal axis parallel to the direction light travels. But could it move in...
Solar storms may leave gray whales blind and stranded
A new study reported in the journal Current Biology on February 24 offers some of the first evidence that gray whales might depend on a magnetic...
Research: War skews men’s altruism toward other men, away from women
War potentially creates a 'boys' club' where men help each other more than they help women, according to new research carried out at the...
New CRISPR base-editing technology slows ALS progression in mice
With a new CRISPR gene-editing methodology, scientists from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign inactivated one of the genes responsible for an inherited form...
Anonymous no more: combining genetics with genealogy to identify the dead in unmarked graves
In Quebec, gravestones did not come into common use until the second half of the 19th century, so historical cemeteries contain many unmarked graves....
Line of defense: Scientists report surprising evolutionary shift in snakes
In the animal kingdom, survival essentially boils down to eat or be eaten. How organisms accomplish the former and avoid the latter reveals a...
Ancient DNA from Sardinia reveals 6,000 years of genetic history
A new study of the genetic history of Sardinia, a Mediterranean island off the western coast of Italy, tells how genetic ancestry on the...
Let it snow: Researchers put cloud seeding to the test
For the first time, researchers have used radar and other tools to accurately measure the volume of snow produced through cloud seeding.
Led by University...
One billion-year-old green seaweed fossils identified, relative of modern land plants
Virginia Tech paleontologists have made a remarkable discovery in China: 1 billion-year-old micro-fossils of green seaweeds that could be related to the ancestor of...
First direct seismic measurements of Mars reveal a geologically active planet
The first reports of seismic activity and ground vibrations on Mars are in. The red planet has a moderate level of seismic activity, intermediate...
