science
Improving soil quality can slow global warming
Low-tech ways of improving soil quality on farms and rangelands worldwide could pull significant amounts of carbon out of the atmosphere and slow the...
‘Archived’ heat has reached deep into the Arctic interior, researchers say
Arctic sea ice isn't just threatened by the melting of ice around its edges, a new study has found: Warmer water that originated hundreds...
Researchers achieve first ever acceleration of electrons in a proton-driven plasma...
Early in the morning on Saturday, 26 May 2018, the AWAKE collaboration at CERN successfully accelerated electrons for the first time using a wakefield...
Astronomers reveal new details about ‘monster’ star-forming galaxies
An international team of astronomers from Japan, Mexico and the University of Massachusetts Amherst studying a "monster galaxy" 12.4 billion light years away today...
Mapping out cancer’s movements
Cancer researchers struggle to identify tumor cells that are interspersed within nonmalignant tissues because tumor cells exploit the tissue environment and monopolize available resources...
Novel process to 3-D print interconnected layers of 2-D graphene
Researchers from Virginia Tech and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory have developed a novel way to 3D print complex objects of one of the highest-performing...
How sleep loss may contribute to adverse weight gain
In a new study, researchers at Uppsala University now demonstrate that one night of sleep loss has a tissue-specific impact on the regulation of...
The science behind blowing bubbles
What exactly happens when you blow on a soap film to make a bubble? Behind this simple question about a favorite childhood activity is...
How we judge personality from faces depends on our beliefs about...
We make snap judgments of others based not only on their facial appearance, but also on our pre-existing beliefs about how others' personalities work,...
Researchers put AI to work making chemistry predictions
As chemistry has gotten more advanced and the chemical reactions more complex, it's no longer always practical for researchers to sit down at a...
Three previously unknown ancient primates identified
Biological anthropologists from The University of Texas at Austin have described three new species of fossil primates that were previously unknown to science. All...
