science
250-million-year-old evolutionary remnants seen in muscles of human embryos
A team of evolutionary biologists, led by Dr. Rui Diogo at Howard University, and writing in the journal Development, have demonstrated that numerous atavistic limb...
Hard as ceramic, tough as steel: Newly discovered connection could help...
A new way to calculate the interaction between a metal and its alloying material could speed the hunt for a new material that combines...
New organic compounds found in Enceladus ice grains
New kinds of organic compounds, the ingredients of amino acids, have been detected in the plumes bursting from Saturn's moon Enceladus. The findings are...
An India-Pakistan nuclear war could kill millions, threaten global starvation
A nuclear war between India and Pakistan could, over the span of less than a week, kill 50-125 million people—more than the death toll...
Can we peek at Schrodinger’s cat without disturbing it?
Quantum physics is difficult and explaining it even more so. Associate Professor Holger F. Hofmann from Hiroshima University and Kartik Patekar from the Indian...
Neutrino produced in a cosmic collider far away
The neutrino event IceCube 170922A, detected at the IceCube Neutrino Observatory at the South Pole, appears to originate from the distant active galaxy TXS...
Why are there no animals with three legs
If "Why?" is the first question in science, "Why not?" must be a close second. Sometimes it's worth thinking about why something does not...
Quantum vacuum: Less than zero energy
Energy is a quantity that must always be positive—at least that's what our intuition tells us. If every single particle is removed from a...
Researchers discover process to sustainably produce psilocybin, a drug candidate that...
Andrew Jones at Miami University and his team of students may have developed a research first.
Through metabolic engineering, they discovered a way to sustainably produce...
Quantum material goes where none have gone before
Rice University physicist Qimiao Si began mapping quantum criticality more than a decade ago, and he's finally found a traveler that can traverse the...
Spitzer spots a starry region bursting with bubbles
This infrared image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope shows a cloud of gas and dust full of bubbles, which are inflated by wind and...
