science
Land use and pollution shift female-to-male ratios in snapping turtles
Most of us know that our biological sex is decided by the pairing of X and Y chromosomes during conception.
However, for many wildlife species,...
Milky Way’s supermassive black hole may have ‘unseen’ siblings
Astronomers are beginning to understand what happens when black holes get the urge to roam the Milky Way.
Typically, a supermassive black hole (SMBH) exists...
Engineered Chinese shrub produces high levels of antimalarial compound
Artemisinin is a potent antimalarial compound produced naturally by the Chinese shrub Artemisia annua, commonly known as sweet wormwood. Currently,however, the low amount of...
Found: A new form of DNA in our cells
It's DNA, but not as we know it.
In a world first, Australian researchers have identified a new DNA structure -- called the i-motif --...
Researchers measure a record concentration of microplastic in Arctic sea ice
Experts at the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) have recently found higher amounts of microplastic in Arctic sea...
Graphene origami as a mechanically tunable plasmonic structure for infrared detection
Soldiers often need to see through smoke, fog, dust or any other airborne obscurant and detect the presence of toxins or other chemicals in...
Winter wave heights and extreme storms on the rise in Western...
Average winter wave heights along the Atlantic coast of Western Europe have been rising for almost seven decades, according to new research.
The coastlines of...
Swirling liquids work similarly to bitcoin
Fluid dynamics is not something that typically comes to mind when thinking about bitcoin. But for one Stanford physicist, the connection is as simple...
Earth BioGenome Project aims to sequence DNA from all complex life...
An international consortium of scientists is proposing what is arguably the most ambitious project in the history of biology: sequencing the DNA of all...
Fear of losing status, not economic hardship, drove voters in 2016...
It has been a well-worn postmortem of the 2016 presidential election: the white working class, having faced job losses and stagnant wages under President...
Did last ice age affect breastfeeding in Native Americans?
The critical role that breast feeding plays in infant survival may have led, during the last ice age, to a common genetic mutation in...
