science
Speculative wormhole echoes could revolutionize astrophysics
The scientific collaborations LIGO and Virgo have detected gravitational waves from the fusion of two black holes, inaugurating a new era in the study...
Researchers ask Americans ‘What does God look like?’
A team of psychologists at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have used a new technique to construct what a large sample...
‘Surgery in a pill’ a potential treatment for diabetes
Over the last decade, bariatric surgeons have made strides in performing weight loss surgery that not only reverses obesity but can also reverse type...
Scientists watch bacteria ‘harpoon’ DNA to speed their evolution
Indiana University scientists have made the first direct observation of a key step in the process that bacteria use to rapidly evolve new traits,...
Nanodiamonds responsible for mysterious source of microwaves across the Milky Way
For decades, astronomers have puzzled over the exact source of a peculiar type of faint microwave light emanating from a number of regions across...
‘Shocking’ die-off of Africa’s oldest baobabs: study
Some of Africa's oldest and biggest baobab trees—a few dating all the way back to the ancient Greeks—have abruptly died, wholly or in part,...
Volcanic activity, declining ocean oxygen triggered mass extinction of ancient organisms
Global climate change, fueled by skyrocketing levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide, is siphoning oxygen from today's oceans at an alarming pace—so fast that scientists...
Physicists create new class of 2-D artificial materials
In 1965, a renowned Princeton University physicist theorized that ferroelectric metals could conduct electricity despite not existing in nature.
For decades, scientists thought it would...
Key difference between humans and other mammals is skin deep, says...
While humans and other species share some of the same genetic information, new research found that humans are unique among mammals when it comes...
Tiny defects in semiconductors created ‘speed bumps’ for electrons—researchers cleared the...
UCLA scientists and engineers have developed a new process for assembling semiconductor devices. The advance could lead to much more energy-efficient transistors for electronics...
‘Monstrous’ new Russian saber-tooth fossils clarify early evolution of mammal lineage
Fossils representing two new species of saber-toothed prehistoric predators have been described by researchers from the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences (Raleigh, USA)...
