Study finds childhood diet has lifelong impact
Eating too much fat and sugar as a child can alter your microbiome for life, even if you later learn to eat healthier, a...
Sea ice kept oxygen from reaching deep ocean during last ice age
Extensive sea ice covered the world's oceans during the last ice age, which prevented oxygen from penetrating into the deep ocean waters, complicating the...
Prehistoric bone etchings believed to be among oldest evidence of human use of symbols
While scientists and historians have long surmised that etchings on stones and bones have been used as a form of symbolism dating back as...
Tiny 3-D structures enhance solar cell efficiency
A new method for constructing special solar cells could significantly increase their efficiency. Not only are the cells made up of thin layers, they...
Engineering light availability for crop production—a solution for coming challenges?
What if we could increase a plant's productivity by modifying the light to which it is exposed? This could increase the yield of important...
Research catches up to world’s fastest-growing plant
Wolffia, also known as duckweed, is the fastest-growing plant known, but the genetics underlying this strange little plant's success have long been a mystery...
Einstein@Home reveals true identity of mysterious gamma-ray source
An international research team including members from the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute; AEI) in Hannover has shown that a...
Novel photocatalyst effectively turns carbon dioxide into methane fuel with light
Carbon dioxide (CO2) is one of the major greenhouse gases causing global warming. If carbon dioxide could be converted into energy, it would be...
Unmatched dust storms raged over Western Europe during Ice age maximum
Every late winter and early spring, huge dust storms swirled across the bare and frozen landscapes of Europe during the coldest periods of the...
Mysterious magnetic fossils offer past climate clues
There are fossils, found in ancient marine sediments and made up of no more than a few magnetic nanoparticles, that can tell us a...
New clues emerge in how early tetrapods learned to live—and eat—on land
New research out of the University of Chicago has found evidence that the lobe-finned fish species Tiktaalik roseae was capable of both biting and...
