Artist's conceptions of the most-distant supermassive black hole ever discovered, which is part of a quasar from just 690 million years after the Big Bang. It is surrounded by neutral hydrogen, indicating that it is from the period called...
Most of the known volcanic hotspots are linked to plumes of hot rock (red) rising from two spots on the boundary between the metal core and rocky mantle 1,800 miles below Earth's surface.
Credit: Image courtesy of University of California...
Cave city in volcanic rocks of uplifted Central Anatolian plateau.
Credit: Russell Pysklywec
When renowned University of Toronto (U of T) geophysicist J. Tuzo Wilson cemented concepts in the emerging field of plate tectonics in the 1960s, he revolutionized the study...
The key to the willow warblers' differing migration patterns probably lies in their genes.
Credit: Max Lundberg
The genetic make-up of a willow warbler determines where it will migrate when winter comes. Studies of willow warblers in Sweden, Finland and the...
The photograph shows the Shingle Pass section in east central Nevada, where late Cambrian to Middle Ordovician (460 to 495 million years ago) limestone rocks are exposed. These strata were sampled for carbon and sulfur isotopic analysis in order...
DNA (stock illustration).
Credit: © frenta / Fotolia
A neutral genetic mutation -- a fluke in the evolutionary process that had no apparent biological purpose -- that appeared over 700 million years ago in biological evolution could help explain the origin...
Island peak( Imja Tse) climbing, Everest region, Nepal.
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Sherpas have evolved to become superhuman mountain climbers, extremely efficient at producing the energy to power their bodies even when oxygen is scarce, suggests new research published today...
White-headed capuchin in Manuel Antonio National Park, Costa Rica.
Credit: © nicksen / Fotolia
Rhesus macaques and capuchin monkeys can find a stable solution when playing a competitive game in which one opponent always does better than the other, but only...
This image shows a false-colored electron microscope image of the University of Minnesota device. The blue area marks the topological insulator on top of the optical waveguide in red.
Credit: University of Minnesota
Light can generate an electrical current in semiconductor...
The tubeworm species Escarpia laminata.
Credit: Image courtesy of the Chemo III project, BOEM and NOAA OER
Large tubeworms living in the cold depths of the Gulf of Mexico may be among the longest living animals in the world. This is...
Brookhaven Lab scientists (from left) Ivan Bozovic, Xi He, Jie Wu, and Anthony Bollinger with the atomic layer-by-layer molecular beam epitaxy system used to synthesize the superconducting cuprate samples.
Credit: Brookhaven National Laboratory
The perfect performance of superconductors could revolutionize everything...
