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Scientists discover secret behind Earth’s biodiversity hotspots
The research suggests that biodiversity hotspots—such as the Daintree Rainforest in Australia and the Cloud Forests of Ecuador—are teeming with species because they have...
Black hole fails to do its job
Astronomers have discovered what can happen when a giant black hole does not intervene in the life of a galaxy cluster. Using NASA's Chandra...
Unequal neutron-star mergers create unique ‘bang’ in simulations
When two neutron stars slam together, the result is sometimes a black hole that swallows all but the gravitational evidence of the collision. However,...
Early Mars was covered in ice sheets, not flowing rivers: study
A large number of the valley networks scarring Mars's surface were carved by water melting beneath glacial ice, not by free-flowing rivers as previously...
Neanderthal DNA contributes to genetic diversity, bringing more understanding to human evolution
The advent of DNA sequencing has given scientists a clearer insight into the interconnectedness of evolution and the web-like path that different organisms take,...
Machine learning finds a surprising early galaxy
New results achieved by combining big data captured by the Subaru Telescope and the power of machine learning have discovered a galaxy with an...
When Dirac meets frustrated magnetism
The fields of condensed matter physics and materials science are intimately linked because new physics is often discovered in materials with special arrangements of...
Texas cave sediment upends meteorite explanation for global cooling
Texas researchers from the University of Houston, Baylor University and Texas A&M University have discovered evidence for why the earth cooled dramatically 13,000 years...
How human sperm really swim: New research challenges centuries-old assumption
A breakthrough in fertility science by researchers from Bristol and Mexico has shattered the universally accepted view of how sperm 'swim'.
More than three hundred...
Canadian ice caps disappear, confirming 2017 scientific prediction
The St. Patrick Bay ice caps on the Hazen Plateau of northeastern Ellesmere Island in Nunavut, Canada, have disappeared, according to NASA satellite imagery....
Satellite survey shows California’s sinking coastal hotspots
A majority of the world population lives on low lying lands near the sea, some of which are predicted to submerge by the end...
