science
Implanting diamonds with flaws offers key technology for quantum communications
Diamonds are prized for their purity, but their flaws might hold the key to a new type of highly secure communications.
Princeton University researchers are...
Combining antibiotics changes their effectiveness
The effectiveness of antibiotics can be altered by combining them with each other, non-antibiotic drugs or even with food additives. Depending on the bacterial...
Our human ancestors walked on two feet but their children still...
More than 3 million years ago, our ancient human ancestors, including their toddler-aged children, were standing on two feet and walking upright, according to...
Test tube artificial neural network recognizes ‘molecular handwriting’
Researchers at Caltech have developed an artificial neural network made out of DNA that can solve a classic machine learning problem: correctly identifying handwritten...
Spiders go ballooning on electric fields
The aerodynamic capabilities of spiders have intrigued scientists for hundreds of years. Charles Darwin himself mused over how hundreds of the creatures managed to...
Oxygen loss in the coastal Baltic Sea is ‘unprecedentedly severe’
The Baltic Sea is home to some of the world's largest dead zones, areas of oxygen-starved waters where most marine animals can't survive. But...
Global warming may be twice what climate models predict
A new study based on evidence from past warm periods suggests global warming may be double what is forecast.
Future global warming may eventually be...
Swimming bacteria work together to go with the flow
Swimming bacteria can reduce the viscosity of ordinary liquids like water and make them flow more easily, sometimes down to the point where the...
Scientists create embryos, hope to save near-extinct rhino
Months after the death of Sudan, the world's last male northern white rhino, scientists said Wednesday they have grown embryos containing DNA of his...
Marine mammals most at risk from increased Arctic ship traffic
In August 2016, the first large cruise ship traveled through the Northwest Passage, the northern waterway linking the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. The following...
The Gaia Sausage: The major collision that changed the Milky Way...
An international team of astronomers has discovered an ancient and dramatic head-on collision between the Milky Way and a smaller object, dubbed the "Sausage"...
