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Building a star in a smaller jar
Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) have gained a better understanding of a promising method for improving...
Room temperature conversion of CO2 to CO: A new way to synthesize hydrocarbons
Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and their colleagues have demonstrated a room-temperature method that could significantly reduce carbon dioxide...
Researchers reconstruct the first complete brain of one of the oldest dinosaurs
The study of the brain of extinct organisms sheds lights on their behaviors. However, soft tissues, like the brain, are not usually preserved for...
Rare 8,000 year old child burial reveals secrets of the dead
ANU Archeologists have discovered a rare child burial dating back 8,000 years on Alor Island, Indonesia.
The one-of-its-kind burial for the region is from the...
Artificial night lighting has widespread impacts on nature
Artificial night-time lighting has a diverse range of effects across the natural world and should be limited where possible, researchers say.
A team led by...
New study reveals United States a top source of plastic pollution in coastal environments
A study published today in the journal Science Advances has revealed that the United States ranks as high as third among countries contributing to coastal plastic...
Self-watering soil could transform farming
A new type of soil created by engineers at The University of Texas at Austin can pull water from the air and distribute it...
Death from below: the first video of a parasitic wasp attacking caterpillar underwater
A very few species of parasitoid wasps can be considered aquatic. Less than 0.1% of the species we know today have been found to...
Mars plays shepherd to our moon’s long-lost twin, scientists find
An international team of planetary scientists led by astronomers at AOP have found an asteroid trailing behind Mars with a composition very similar to...
Neanderthal children grew and were weaned similarly to modern humans
Neanderthals behaved similarly to modern humans in raising their children, whose pace of growth was similar to Homo sapiens.
Thanks to the combination of geochemical...
Two centuries of Monarch butterflies show evolution of wing length
ed Monarch butterflies are known for their annual, multi-generation migrations in which individual insects can fly for thousands of miles. But Monarchs have also...
