Change of course on the journey to the island of stability
An international research team succeeded in gaining new insights into the artificially produced superheavy element…
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Wirelessly rechargeable soft brain implant controls brain cells
Researchers have invented a smartphone-controlled soft brain implant that can be recharged wirelessly from outside…
Gut microbiota reveals whether drug therapies work in inflammatory bowel diseases
A study indicates that the gut microbiota of patients suffering from inflammatory gastrointestinal disorders can…
Finding a way to stop chemotherapy from damaging the heart
There could be an intervention on the horizon to help prevent heart damage caused by…
Energy spent avoiding humans associated with smaller home ranges for male pumas
New research shows that fear of humans causes mountain lions to increase their energy expenditures…
Toddlers who use touchscreens may be more distractible
New research highlights some of the effects regular use of touchscreens might have on toddlers….
No overall difference in concussion recovery time for male and female college athletes
Researchers found female and male collegiate athletes take approximately the same amount of time to…
Breakthrough design vastly improves mechanical heart valve
New research may take the current ‘gold standard’ for heart valves to a new level…
Increasing ocean temperature threatens Greenland’s ice sheet
Scientists have for the first time quantified how warming coastal waters are impacting individual glaciers…
The surprises of color evolution
Nature is full of color. For flowers, displaying color is primarily a means to attract…
Watching decision making in the brain
Neuroscientists and engineers have developed a system that can show the neural process of decision…
CHEOPS finds unique planetary system
The CHEOPS space telescope detects six planets orbiting the star TOI-178. Five of the planets…
What’s in a name? A new class of superconductors
A new theory that could explain how unconventional superconductivity arises in a diverse set of…
NASA’s Roman mission will probe galaxy’s core for hot Jupiters, brown dwarfs
NASA’s Roman Space Telescope will conduct a microlensing survey to reveal worlds that are similar…
Stimulating brain pathways shows origins of human language and memory
Scientists have identified that the evolutionary development of human and primate brains may have been…
Puzzling six-exoplanet system with rhythmic movement challenges theories of how planets form
Using a combination of telescopes, including the Very Large Telescope of the European Southern Observatory…
Dinosaur embryo find helps crack baby tyrannosaur mystery
They are among the largest predators ever to walk the Earth, but experts have discovered…
When galaxies collide
It was previously thought that collisions between galaxies would necessarily add to the activity of…
Global ice loss increases at record rate
The rate at which ice is disappearing across the planet is speeding up, according to…
New skull of tube-crested dinosaur reveals evolution of bizarre crest
The first new skull discovered in nearly a century from a rare species of the…
No more needles for diagnostic tests?
Medical researchers have developed a biosensing microneedle patch that can be applied to the skin,…
Wet and wild: There’s lots of water in the world’s most explosive volcano
Conditions inside the Shiveluch volcano include roughly 10%-14% water by weight (wt%), according to new…
New technique builds super-hard metals from nanoparticles
Researchers have shown a way to make bulk metals by smashing tiny metal nanoparticles together,…
Regulating the ribosomal RNA production line
The enzyme that makes RNA from a DNA template is altered to slow the production…
Possible new combo therapy for head and neck cancer
Researchers have tested a new combination therapy in animal models to see if they could…
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Crystal structures in super slow motion
Laser beams are used to change the properties of materials in an extremely precise way….
PTSD link to pandemic fears
A new study of 1040 online participants from five western countries explores people’s response to…
Cargo delivery by polymers
Degradable, bio-based polymers offer options for chemical recycling, and they can be a tool to…
Rhesus macaques develop promising immune response to SARS-CoV-2
In a promising result for the success of vaccines against COVID-19, rhesus macaque monkeys infected…
Bringing atoms to a standstill: Miniaturizing laser cooling
Scientists have miniaturized the optical components required to cool atoms down to a few thousandths…
Giant sand worm discovery proves truth is stranger than fiction
Researchers have found evidence that large ambush-predatory worms — some as long as two meters…
Squeezing a rock-star material could make it stable enough for solar cells
A promising lead halide perovskite is great at converting sunlight to electricity, but it breaks…
Designing customized ‘brains’ for robots
Researchers have developed an automated way to design customized hardware that speeds up a robot’s…
Spitting Cobra venom reveals how evolution often finds the same answer to a common problem
A study of spitting cobras reveals how a combination of venom components have evolved to…
Early humans used chopping tools to break animal bones and consume the bone marrow
Researchers found that stone tools of the type known as ‘chopping tools’ were used to…
Using VR training to boost our sense of agency and improve motor control
Patients with motor dysfunctions are on the rise across Japan as its population continues to…
Saturn’s tilt caused by its moons
Scientists have just shown that the influence of Saturn’s satellites can explain the tilt of…
Butterfly wing clap explains mystery of flight
The fluttery flight of butterflies has so far been somewhat of a mystery to researchers,…
‘Smiling eyes’ may not signify true happiness after all
A smile that lifts the cheeks and crinkles the eyes is thought by many to…
Oldest carbonates in the solar system: Flensburg meteorite
A meteorite that fell in northern Germany in 2019 contains carbonates which are among the…
California harbor porpoises rebound after coastal gillnetting stopped
Harbor porpoises have rebounded in a big way off California. Their populations have recovered dramatically…
Rocks show Mars once felt like Iceland
A comparison of chemical and climate weathering of sedimentary rock in Mars’ Gale Crater indicate…
Saturn’s moon Titan: Largest sea is 1,000-feet deep
Far below the gaseous atmospheric shroud on Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, lies Kraken Mare, a…
World’s largest lakes reveal climate change trends
Sixteen years of remote sensing data reveals that in Earth’s largest freshwater lakes, climate change…
Much of Earth’s nitrogen was locally sourced
Scientists show evidence that nitrogen acquired during Earth’s formation came from both the inner and…
Scientists discover how the potentially oldest coral reefs in the Mediterranean developed
A new study brings unprecedented insights into the environmental constraints and climatic events that controlled…
Climate-related species extinction possibly mitigated by newly discovered effect
Changes in climate that occur over short periods of time influence biodiversity. For a realistic…
Discovery of new praying mantis species from the time of the dinosaurs
A research team has identified a new species of praying mantis thanks to imprints of…
Methane emissions from abandoned oil and gas wells underestimated
A recent study finds that annual methane emissions from abandoned oil and gas (AOG) wells…
As oceans warm, large fish struggle
Warming ocean waters could reduce the ability of fish, especially large ones, to extract the…