science
Big birds: Giant, 1,000-pound birds once roamed around Europe
Talk about your big bird.
At 1,000 pounds and over 10 feet tall, it was one of the largest birds that ever lived in Earth's...
Damage to the ozone layer and climate change forming feedback loop
Increased solar radiation penetrating through the damaged ozone layer is interacting with the changing climate, and the consequences are rippling through the Earth's natural...
How octopus arms make decisions
Researchers studying the behavior and neuroscience of octopuses have long suspected that the animals' arms may have minds of their own.
A new model being...
Researchers discover more than 50 lakes beneath the Greenland Ice Sheet
Researchers have discovered 56 previously uncharted subglacial lakes beneath the Greenland Ice Sheet bringing the total known number of lakes to 60.
Although these lakes...
New research identifies Fukushima reactor material in environment
Through the analysis of specific fallout particles in the environment, a joint UK-Japan team of scientists has uncovered new insights into the sequence of...
Neanderthals used resin ‘glue’ to craft their stone tools
Archaeologists working in two Italian caves have discovered some of the earliest known examples of ancient humans using an adhesive on their stone tools—an...
The fundamental physics of frequency combs sheds light on nature’s problem-solving...
Nature has a way of finding optimal solutions to complex problems. For example, despite the billions of ways for a single protein to fold,...
Research reveals exotic quantum states in double-layer graphene
Researchers from Brown and Columbia Universities have demonstrated previously unknown states of matter that arise in double-layer stacks of graphene, a two-dimensional nanomaterial. These...
The first AI universe sim is fast and accurate—and its creators...
For the first time, astrophysicists have used artificial intelligence techniques to generate complex 3-D simulations of the universe. The results are so fast, accurate...
Physicists develop new method to prove quantum entanglement
One of the essential features required for the realization of a quantum computer is quantum entanglement. A team of physicists from the University of...
Data visualization could reveal nature of the universe
As cosmologists ponder the universe—and other possible universes—the data available to them is so complex and vast that it can be extremely challenging for...
