science
Giant clue in the search for Earth 2.0
In a new study published today in the Astrophysical Journal, researchers from New York University Abu Dhabi and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in...
New study suggests tens of thousands of black holes exist in...
A Columbia University-led team of astrophysicists has discovered a dozen black holes gathered around Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*), the supermassive black hole in the...
Physicists demonstrate demixing behavior of rotating particles
Physicists from Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg and Heinrich-Heine Universität Düsseldorf have demonstrated that demixing occurs in systems made up of macroscopic particles rotating in opposite directions...
Scientists create ‘Swiss army knife’ for electron beams
DESY scientists have created a miniature particle accelerator for electrons that can perform four different functions at the push of a button. The experimental...
Researchers develop nanoparticle films for high-density data storage
As we generate more and more data, the need for high-density data storage that remains stable over time is becoming critical. New nanoparticle-based films...
20 percent of Americans responsible for almost half of US food-related...
On any given day, 20 percent of Americans account for nearly half of U.S. diet-related greenhouse gas emissions, and high levels of beef consumption...
Wind, sea ice patterns point to climate change in western Arctic
A major shift in western Arctic wind patterns occurred throughout the winter of 2017 and the resulting changes in sea ice movement are possible...
Amygdala neurons increase as children become adults—except in autism
In a striking new finding, researchers at the UC Davis MIND Institute found that typically-developing children gain more neurons in a region of the...
Why it doesn’t pay to be just nice – you also...
New research has revealed how people's intelligence, rather than their personality traits, leads to success.
Researchers at the Universities of Bristol, Minnesota and Heidelberg devised...
Study uncovers first steps of photosynthesis
Photosynthesis has driven life on this planet for more than 3 billion years—first in bacteria, then in plants—but we don't know exactly how it...
New deep reef ocean zone, the rariphotic, teeming with new fish...
Based on the unique fish fauna observed from a manned submersible on a southern Caribbean reef system in Curaçao, Smithsonian explorers defined a new...
