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September 5, 2024
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Sep. 5, 2024 — In a pioneering new study, researchers made the skin on the skulls and abdomens of live mice transparent by applying to the areas a mixture of water and a common yellow food coloring called ...
Sep. 5, 2024 — There are some pretty strange ingredients in cosmetics and skin care products. One example is snail mucin -- also known as snail slime -- which is used for its moisturizing and antioxidant properties. But researchers might have found something even ...
Sep. 5, 2024 — A better understanding of the inner workings of neutron stars will lead to a greater knowledge of the dynamics that underpin the workings of the universe and also could help drive future technology. A new study details how new insights into how ...
Sep. 5, 2024 — A research team has discovered a small planet that displays peculiar orbital motion. The shimmying planet, located 455 light-years from Earth, shows that planetary systems can be considerably more ...
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Sep. 4, 2024 — Fruit flies walking on minature treadmills are helping scientists learn how the nervous system enables animals to move in an unpredictable and complex world. The researchers engineered these ...
Sep. 4, 2024 — In creating a pair of new robots, researchers cultivated an unlikely component, one found on the forest floor: fungal mycelia. By harnessing mycelia's innate electrical signals, the researchers ...
Sep. 4, 2024 — It's 7 billion years ago, and the universe's heyday of star formation is beginning to slow. What might our Milky Way galaxy have looked like at that time? Astronomers have found clues in the form of ...
Sep. 4, 2024 — Chemists offer a new explanation for how collagen in dinosaur bones may have survived millions of years: An atomic-level interaction prevents its ...
Aug. 30, 2024 — A new species of Antarctic dragonfish, Akarotaxis gouldae or Banded Dragonfish, has been discovered in waters off the western Antarctic Peninsula. The species, named in honor of the recently ...
Sep. 3, 2024 — The bigmouth buffalo is a fish that's native to Minnesota and known for its longevity. Researchers wanted to find out more about the species, especially how they migrate, spawn, and how often their ...
Sep. 3, 2024 — Around 4 billion years ago, an asteroid hit the Jupiter moon Ganymede. Now, a researcher realized that the Solar System's biggest moon's axis has shifted as a result of the impact, which confirmed ...
Sep. 3, 2024 — Over billions of years, the universe's stars and galaxies shined their light into space, leaving behind an imperceptibly faint night light known as the cosmic optical background. NASA's New Horizons ...
Aug. 30, 2024 — A doughnut-shaped region thousands of kilometers beneath our feet within Earth's liquid core has been discovered, providing new clues about the ...
Aug. 29, 2024 — A 'tag-team' between the oceans and continents millions of years ago devastated marine life and altered the course of evolution on Earth, according ...
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Aug. 30, 2024 — Geologists examined a submerged 25-foot bridge to tackle a long-lasting archaeological controversy: When humans settled on the islands in the western Mediterranean. Their findings narrow a historical ...
Aug. 29, 2024 — Astronomers have spotted a pair of galaxies in the act of merging 12.8 billion years ago. The characteristics of these galaxies indicate that the merger will form a monster galaxy, one of the ...
Aug. 29, 2024 — An ancient gene is crucial for the development of the distinctive waist that divides the spider body plan in two, according to a new ...
Aug. 29, 2024 — Researchers have made a groundbreaking discovery about how sea stars (commonly known as starfish) manage to survive predatory attacks by shedding their own limbs. The team has identified a ...
Aug. 29, 2024 — A new study showing how a prehistoric sea cow was preyed upon by not one, but two different carnivores -- a crocodilian and a shark -- is revealing clues into both the predation tactics of ancient ...
Aug. 29, 2024 — To understand the mysteries surrounding black holes, researchers at Tohoku University have created a simulation of accretion disk turbulence that possesses the highest-resolution currently ...
Aug. 29, 2024 — Innovative study of DNA's hidden structures may open up new approaches for treatment and diagnosis of diseases, including ...
Aug. 29, 2024 — Fungi can transform plant and animal products into delicious foods like cheese, miso and beer. A researcher argues that a type of filamentous mold -- Neurospora intermedia -- could also turn food ...
Aug. 29, 2024 — Move over, Sonic. There's a new spin-jumping champion in town -- the globular springtail (Dicyrtomina minuta). This diminutive hexapod backflips into the air, spinning to over 60 times its body ...
Aug. 28, 2024 — Scientists have discovered a virus that caused a nationwide die-off of superworms, a common food for birds, reptiles, other pets and, more and more so, even for humans as an alternative protein ...
Aug. 28, 2024 — Supermassive black holes typically take billions of years to form. But the James Webb Space Telescope is finding them not that long after the Big Bang -- before they should have had time to form. ...
Aug. 28, 2024 — Bacterial cells can 'remember' brief, temporary changes to their bodies and immediate surroundings, a new study has found. And, although these changes are not encoded in the cell's ...
Aug. 28, 2024 — New research may enable potential solutions to metabolic disease by turning to evolution and to bats. 'Our study reports blood sugar levels that are the highest we have ever seen in nature -- ...
Aug. 28, 2024 — Male fruit flies will become oblivious to physical danger as they become more engaged in courtship and ...
Aug. 27, 2024 — Astronomers have achieved the highest resolution ever obtained from the surface of Earth. They managed this feat by detecting light from distant galaxies at a frequency of around 345 GHz, equivalent ...
Aug. 27, 2024 — Lunar igneous activities including intrusive and extrusive magmatism, and their products contain significant information about the lunar interior and its thermal state. Their distribution is ...
Aug. 27, 2024 — The James Webb Space Telescope has spotted six likely rogue worlds -- objects with planet-like masses but untethered from any star's gravity -- including the lightest ever identified with a ...
Aug. 26, 2024 — Researchers have announced a groundbreaking study using the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) in Western Australia. The research is the first to search for signs of alien technology in galaxies beyond ...
Aug. 26, 2024 — According to a new study, some of the earliest galaxies observed with the James Webb Space Telescope are in fact much less massive than they first appeared. Black holes in some of these galaxies make ...
Aug. 26, 2024 — New results from the world's most sensitive dark matter detector put the best-ever limits on particles called WIMPs, a leading candidate for what makes up our universe's invisible ...
Friday, August 30, 2024
Thursday, August 29, 2024
- Dancing Galaxies Make a Monster at the Cosmic Dawn
- Ancient Gene Gives Spiders Their Narrow Waist
- Scientists Discover How Starfish Get 'legless'
- Ancient Sea Cow Attacked by a Crocodile and Sharks Sheds New Light on Prehistoric Food Chains
- Supercomputer Simulations Reveal the Nature of Turbulence in Black Hole Accretion Disks
- Researchers Map 50,000 of DNA's Mysterious 'knots' In the Human Genome
- Can Fungi Turn Food Waste Into the Next Culinary Sensation?
- This Tiny Backyard Bug Does the Fastest Backflips on Earth
Wednesday, August 28, 2024
- How Beetle Juice Led to the Discovery of a Virus and Solved the Mystery of a Superworm Die-Off
- Dark Matter Could Have Helped Make Supermassive Black Holes in the Early Universe
- Bacterial Cells Transmit Memories to Offspring
- Bats Are Surviving and Thriving on Nothing but Sugar
- Love Is Blind for Male Fruit Flies Who Will Choose Sex Over Safety
Tuesday, August 27, 2024
- Highest-Resolution Observations Yet from the Surface of Earth
- Hidden Magmatism Discovered at the Chang'e-6 Lunar Landing Site
- Six New Rogue Worlds: Star Birth Clues
Monday, August 26, 2024
- First Low Frequency Search for Alien Technology in Distant Galaxies
- Early Galaxies Were Not Too Big for Their Britches After All
- New Record in Search for Dark Matter
- Matching Dinosaur Footprints Found on Opposite Sides of the Atlantic Ocean
Friday, August 23, 2024
- Two Epicenters Led to Japan's Violent Noto Earthquake on New Year's Day
- NASA's DART Impact Permanently Changed the Shape and Orbit of Asteroid Moon
- Innovative Field Experiments Shed Light on Biological Clocks in Nature
- Bonobos and Ancient Origin of the 'common Enemy Effect'
- Toward a Code-Breaking Quantum Computer
Thursday, August 22, 2024
- Colorful Traits in Primates Ease Tensions Between Groups
- Life After (Feigned) Death
- Mitochondria Are Flinging Their DNA Into Our Brain Cells
- Creature the Size of a Dust Grain Found Hiding in California's Mono Lake
- How Baleen Whales Have Adapted Over the Past 50 Million Years
- How to Catch a Criminal Using Their 'skin Shedder' Profile
- Fighting Coastal Erosion With Electricity
- DNA Tech Offers Both Data Storage and Computing Functions
- Will EEG Be Able to Read Your Dreams? The Future of the Brain Activity Measure as It Marks 100 Years
- Tarantulas Have Surprising Partnerships With Other Species and Their Hairiness May Be a Defense Mechanism
- Hydrogels Can Play Pong by 'remembering' Previous Patterns of Electrical Simulation
- Alzheimer's Drug May Someday Help Save Lives by Inducing a State of 'suspended Animation'
Wednesday, August 21, 2024
- To Kill Mammoths in the Ice Age, People Used Planted Pikes, Not Throwing Spears, Researchers Say
- Chalk-Based Coating Creates a Cooling Fabric
- Pilot Study Uses Recycled Glass to Grow Plants for Salsa Ingredients
- Beetle That Pushes Dung With the Help of 100 Billion Stars Unlocks the Key to Better Navigation Systems in Drones and Satellites
- The Power of Face Time: Insights from Zebra Finch Courtship
- New Heaviest Exotic Antimatter Nucleus
- Extraterrestrial Chemistry With Earthbound Possibilities
Tuesday, August 20, 2024
- Humpbacks Are Among Animals Who Manufacture and Wield Tools
- New View of North Star Reveals Spotted Surface
- Deadly Sea Snail Toxin Could Be Key to Making Better Medicines
- Adaptive 3D Printing System to Pick and Place Bugs and Other Organisms
- Researchers Uncover the Secrets of 'plant Puberty'
- Analyzing 'Finnegans Wake' For Novel Spacing Between Punctuation Marks
- Spectacular Increase in the Deuterium/hydrogen Ratio in Venus' Atmosphere
- 'Masters of Shape-Shifting': How Darkling Beetles Conquered the World
Monday, August 19, 2024
- Study Explains Why Laws Are Written in an Incomprehensible Style
- How 'winner and Loser Effects' Impact Social Rank in Animals -- And Humans
- Searching Old Stem Cells That Stay Young Forever
- Morphable Materials: Researchers Coax Nanoparticles to Reconfigure Themselves
- Spider Exploits Firefly's Flashing Signals to Lure More Prey
- Evidence Stacks Up for Poisonous Books Containing Toxic Dyes
Friday, August 16, 2024
- Tracking Down the Asteroid That Sealed the Fate of the Dinosaurs
- Hailstone Library to Improve Extreme Weather Forecasting
- Rethinking the Dodo
- New Research Shows Unprecedented Atmospheric Changes During May's Geomagnetic Superstorm
- Engineers Design Tiny Batteries for Powering Cell-Sized Robots
Thursday, August 15, 2024
- Blind Cavefish Have Extraordinary Taste Buds
- Cleaning Up the Aging Brain: Scientists Restore Brain's Trash Disposal System
- Surprise Finding in Study of Environmental Bacteria Could Advance Search for Better Antibiotics
- Why Do Plants Wiggle? New Study Provides Answers
- Scientists Condition Crocodiles to Avoid Killer Cane Toads
Wednesday, August 14, 2024
- Physicists Throw World's Smallest Disco Party
- Galaxies in Dense Environments Tend to Be Larger, Settling One Cosmic Question and Raising Others
- Smart Fabric Converts Body Heat Into Electricity
- How Air-Powered Computers Can Prevent Blood Clots
- Rocks from Mars' Jezero Crater, Which Likely Predate Life on Earth, Contain Signs of Water
- Great Scott! Stonehenge's Altar Stone Origins Reveal Advanced Ancient Britain
- Decoding the World's Largest Animal Genome
- Giant Fossil Seeds from Borneo Record Ancient Plant Migration
- Engineers Conduct First in-Orbit Test of 'swarm' Satellite Autonomous Navigation
- Rare Archaeological Site Reveals 'surprising' Neanderthal Behaviour at Pyrenees Foothills
Tuesday, August 13, 2024
- SwRI-Led Team Finds Evidence of Hydration on Asteroid Psyche
- Measuring Martian Winds With Sound
- Say 'aah' And Get a Diagnosis on the Spot: Is This the Future of Health?
- New Interpretation of Runic Inscription Reveals Pricing in Viking Age
- Rewriting the Evolutionary History of Critical Components of the Nervous System
- Reduce, Reuse, 're-Fly-Cle'
Monday, August 12, 2024
- Engineers Make Tunable, Shape-Changing Metamaterial Inspired by Vintage Toys
- AI Poses No Existential Threat to Humanity, New Study Finds
- Scientists Find Oceans of Water on Mars: It's Just Too Deep to Tap
- Engineers Bring Efficient Optical Neural Networks Into Focus
Friday, August 9, 2024
- New Technology Uses Light to Engrave Erasable 3D Images
- Researchers Find Unexpectedly Large Methane Source in Overlooked Landscape
- Achieving Quantum Memory in the Hard X-Ray Range
Thursday, August 8, 2024
Wednesday, August 7, 2024
- 3D-Printed Blood Vessels Bring Artificial Organs Closer to Reality
- Individuals Vary in How Air Pollution Impacts Their Mood
- International Space Station Crew Carries out Archeological Survey in Space
- When Mammoths Roamed Vancouver Island
- Findings from First Archaeology Project in Space
- Scientists Lay out Revolutionary Method to Warm Mars
- X-Ray Imagery of Vibrating Diamond Opens Avenues for Quantum Sensing