science
Winter ticks killing moose at alarming rate
As winter in New England seems to get warmer, fall lingers longer and spring comes into bloom earlier, areas like northern New Hampshire and...
Youth violence lower in countries with complete ban on corporal punishment
A study published today in the BMJ Open shows that in countries where there is a complete ban on all corporal punishment of children...
Researchers reveal the story of the oldest stars and galaxies, compiled...
The Big Bang has captured our imagination like no other theory in science: the magnificent, explosive birth of our Universe. But do you know...
Study documents paternal transmission of epigenetic memory via sperm
Studies of human populations and animal models suggest that a father's experiences such as diet or environmental stress can influence the health and development...
Antarctic ice shelf ‘sings’ as winds whip across its surface
Winds blowing across snow dunes on Antarctica's Ross Ice Shelf cause the massive ice slab's surface to vibrate, producing a near-constant set of seismic...
Toward unhackable communication: Single particles of light could bring the ‘quantum...
Hacker attacks on everything from social media accounts to government files could be largely prevented by the advent of quantum communication, which would use...
Missing gamma-ray blobs shed new light on dark matter, cosmic magnetism
When astrophysicists look at the gamma-ray glow from a galaxy outside our own, all they typically see is a small spot because the galaxy...
New test rapidly identifies antibiotic-resistant superbugs
When you get sick, you want the right treatment fast. But certain infectious microbes are experts at evading the very anti-bacterial drugs designed to...
How geology tells the story of evolutionary bottlenecks and life on...
Evidence that catastrophic geological events could have created evolutionary bottlenecks that changed the course of life on Earth may be buried within ancient rocks...
Computer model for designing protein sequences optimized to bind to drug...
Designing synthetic proteins that can act as drugs for cancer or other diseases can be a tedious process: It generally involves creating a library...
All in the family: Kin of gravitational wave source discovered
On October 16, 2017, an international group of astronomers and physicists excitedly reported the first simultaneous detection of light and gravitational waves from the...
