Oldest hominins of Olduvai Gorge persisted across changing environments
Olduvai (now Oldupai) Gorge, known as the Cradle of Humankind, is a UNESCO World Heritage site in Tanzania, made famous by Louis and Mary...
Cell biologists decipher signal that ensures no chromosome is left behind
Starting as a single cell, organisms undergo millions of generations of divisions to ultimately generate the bones, heart, brain and other components that make...
Modern microbes provide window into ancient ocean
Step into your new, microscopic time machine. Scientists at the University of Colorado Boulder have discovered that a type of single-celled organism living in...
How giant dinosaurs may have spread seeds in prehistoric world
A new study from the University of Auckland looks at the animals' roles in moving seeds from one place to another.
Evidence from fossils indicates...
Some English bulldogs thought to have cancer may have newly identified syndrome
"This could save some dogs from being misdiagnosed, treated for cancer or even euthanized when they shouldn't be," said Dr. Anne Avery, Professor, Department...
Australia’s Black Summer a climate wake-up call
The 2019/20 Black Summer bushfires are a "wake up call" demonstrating the extreme effects of climate change in Australia, according to a group of...
Optical network shapes pulses of light
then fabricated using 3-D printing and stacked together, one following another, forming an optical network that is capable of performing various computational tasks using...
Physicists observe competition between magnetic orders
They are as thin as a hair, only a hundred thousand times thinner -- so-called two-dimensional materials, consisting of a single layer of atoms,...
The world’s first integrated quantum communication network
Chinese scientists have established the world's first integrated quantum communication network, combining over 700 optical fibers on the ground with two ground-to-satellite links to...
How Earth’s oddest mammal got to be so bizarre
Often considered the world's oddest mammal, Australia's beaver-like, duck-billed platypus exhibits an array of bizarre characteristics: it lays eggs instead of giving birth to...
Researchers turn coal powder into graphite in microwave oven
Using copper foil, glass containers and a conventional household microwave oven, University of Wyoming researchers have demonstrated that pulverized coal powder can be converted...
