science
Citizen scientist finds ancient white dwarf star encircled by puzzling rings
A volunteer working with the NASA-led Backyard Worlds: Planet 9 project has found the oldest and coldest known white dwarf -- an Earth-sized remnant...
New ‘interspecies communication’ strategy between gut bacteria and mammalian hosts uncovered
Bacteria in the gut do far more than help digest food in the stomachs of their hosts, they can also tell the genes in...
Physicists get thousands of semiconductor nuclei to do ‘quantum dances’ in...
A team of Cambridge researchers have found a way to control the sea of nuclei in semiconductor quantum dots so they can operate as...
Ingredients for water could be made on surface of moon, a...
When a stream of charged particles known as the solar wind careens onto the Moon's surface at 450 kilometers per second (or nearly 1...
Researchers explore an often ignored source of greenhouse gas
In a new study from UBC's Okanagan campus, researchers have discovered a surprising new source of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions—bicarbonates hidden in the lake...
How to freeze heat conduction
Physicists have discovered a new effect, which makes it possible to create excellent thermal insulators which conduct electricity. Such materials can be used to...
New species of tiny tyrannosaur foreshadows rise of T. rex
A newly discovered, diminutive—by T. rex standards—relative of the tyrant king of dinosaurs reveals crucial new information about when and how T. rex came...
Squid could provide an eco-friendly alternative to plastics
The remarkable properties of a recently-discovered squid protein could revolutionize materials in a way that would be unattainable with conventional plastic, finds a review...
Water is more homogeneous than expected
In order to explain the known anomalies in water, some researchers assume that water consists of a mixture of two phases, even under ambient...
Tiny Neptune moon spotted by Hubble may have broken from larger...
Astronomers call it "the moon that shouldn't be there."
After several years of analysis, a team of planetary scientists using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has...
Do volcanoes or an asteroid deserve blame for dinosaur extinction
Based on new data published today in the journal Science, it seems increasingly likely that an asteroid or comet impact 66 million years ago reignited...
