science
Distant moons may harbor life
We've all heard about the search for life on other planets, but what about looking on other moons?
In a paper published June 13 in...
Astronomers see distant eruption as black hole destroys star
For the first time, astronomers have directly imaged the formation and expansion of a fast-moving jet of material ejected when the powerful gravity of...
New type of photosynthesis discovered
The discovery changes our understanding of the basic mechanism of photosynthesis and should rewrite the textbooks.
It will also tailor the way we hunt for...
Antarctica ramps up sea level rise
Ice losses from Antarctica have increased global sea levels by 7.6 mm since 1992, with two fifths of this rise (3.0 mm) coming in...
One black hole or two? Dust clouds can explain puzzling features...
Researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC), believe clouds of dust, rather than twin black holes, can explain the features found in...
Microbe breaks ‘universal’ DNA rule by using two different translations
DNA is often referred to as the blueprint for life, however scientists have for the first time discovered a microbe that uses two different...
Amber fossils provide oldest evidence of frogs in wet, tropical forests
About 99 million years ago, a tiny juvenile frog in present-day Myanmar was suddenly trapped in sap with a beetle, perhaps its intended next...
Scientists make first ‘on demand’ entanglement link
Researchers at QuTech in Delft have succeeded in generating quantum entanglement between two quantum chips faster than the entanglement is lost. Via a novel...
Organics on Ceres may be more abundant than originally thought
Last year, scientists with NASA's Dawn mission announced the detection of organic material -- carbon-based compounds that are necessary components for life -- exposed...
Magnetic 3D-printed structures crawl, roll, and jump
MIT engineers have created soft, 3-D-printed structures whose movements can be controlled with a wave of a magnet, much like marionettes without the strings.
The...
For 100 million years, amber freezes a tableau of tick’s worst...
One day in Myanmar during the Cretaceous period, a tick managed to ensnare itself in a spider web. Realizing its predicament, the tick struggled...
