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- Ancient 12,000-Year-Old Mine Discovered in Underwater Caves on Mexican CoastThe oldest known mine in the Americas?... Read more »
- Here's What You Need to Know About That 'Human-Sized' Bat Going ViralThe photo is real. ... Read more »
- Scientists Discover Extremely Tiny Dinosaur Ancestor in MadagascarFrom little things, big things grow.... Read more »
- 36,000 Weather Stations Confirm It: Extreme Heat And Rain Are Happening More OftenThis is about as official as it gets.... Read more »
- Astronomers Reveal Glorious Catalog of Objects That Could Host Alien IntelligenceWelcome to Exotica.... Read more »
- Famous 'Jurassic Park' dinosaur is less lizard, more birdFrom movies to museum exhibits, the dinosaur Dilophosaurus is no stranger to pop culture. Many probably remember it best from the movie 'Jurassic Park,' where it's depicted as a venom-spitting beast with a rattling frill around its neck and two paddle-like crests on its head. But a new comprehensive analysis... Read more »
- Algae species discovered infesting NW Hawaiian waters has been identifiedA newly-identified, fast-growing species of algae poses a major threat to coral reefs and the ocean ecosystem in the northwestern Hawaiian Islands.... Read more »
- Future Texas hurricanes: Fast like Ike or slow like Harvey?Climate change will intensify winds that steer hurricanes north over Texas in the final 25 years of this century, increasing the odds for fast-moving storms like 2008's Ike compared to slow-movers like 2017's Harvey, according to new research.... Read more »
- Making a list of all creatures, great and smallA new article outlines a roadmap for creating, for the first time, an agreed list of all the world's species, from mammals and birds to plants, fungi and microbes.... Read more »
- Our animal inheritance: Humans perk up their ears, too, when they hear interesting soundsMany animals move their ears to better focus their attention on a novel sound. That humans also have this capability was not known until now. A research team now has demonstrated that we make minute, unconscious movements of our ears that are directed towards the sound want to focus our... Read more »
- MU researcher awarded $4 million US Department of Education grant(University of Missouri-Columbia) Students who struggle with reading comprehension often perform poorly in classes like social studies because they have difficulty understanding the material. To solve this problem, educational researchers have been searching for the most effective interventions to help increase reading comprehension for struggling students.... Read more »
- Researchers create air filter that can kill the coronavirus(University of Houston) Researchers from the University of Houston, in collaboration with others, have designed a "catch and kill" air filter that can trap the virus responsible for COVID-19, killing it instantly.... Read more »
- Limitations of super-resolution microscopy overcome(University of Würzburg) The smallest cell structures can now be imaged even better: The combination of two microscopy methods makes fluorescence imaging with molecular resolution possible for the first time.... Read more »
- New collection of stars, not born in our galaxy, discovered in Milky Way(University of Texas at Austin, Texas Advanced Computing Center) Astrophysicists announced the discovery of Nyx, a new collection of 250 stars that they believe are the remnant of a dwarf galaxy that merged with the Milky Way eons ago. The research combined massive cosmological simulations and observational data from the... Read more »
- Scientists create new device to light up the way for quantum technologies(Trinity College Dublin) Researchers at CRANN and the School of Physics at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, have created an innovative new device that will emit single particles of light, or photons, from quantum dots that are the key to practical quantum computers, quantum communications, and other quantum devices.... Read more »
- Summer on Mars: NASA's Perseverance Rover Is One of Three Missions Ready to LaunchA new generation of orbiters, landers and rovers will study the Red Planet as never before, setting the stage for returning pristine samples to Earth -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com ... Read more »
- How Human Brains Are Different: It Has a Lot to Do with the ConnectionsDifferent mammals demonstrate common patterns in brain connections. But our own species has a few twists of its own -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com ... Read more »
- Stingers Have Achieved Optimal Pointiness, Physicists ShowA single equation describes the shapes of stingers, spikes and spines throughout the natural world -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com ... Read more »
- 'Hybrid' Quantum Networking Demonstrated for First TimeBy exploiting the wave-and-particle-like nature of light, a new technique offers the best of both worlds -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com ... Read more »
- The Dentist Will See You Now: But Will You See the Dentist?Dental practices are taking measures to keep patients safe. Some people are wary, however -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com ... Read more »
- Newly discovered form of carbon is more resilient than diamondA computer simulation found a pentagon-shaped carbon molecule that would be as hard as diamond and could tolerate temperatures of almost 4000°C without breaking down... Read more »
- The detector with a billion sensors that may finally snare dark matterDark matter must exist, but has evaded all attempts to find it. Now comes our boldest plan yet – sensing its minuscule gravitational force as it brushes past us... Read more »
- Soap bubbles can split light into otherworldly branching streamsWhen a laser beam shines through a membrane made of simple household soap, it branches in a strange and unexpected way that could help us understand the cosmos... Read more »
- Why neutrinos are the strangest particles in the Standard ModelWe still don’t know what the mass of a neutrino is, which means there is still lots of exciting work to do, says Chanda Prescod-Weinstein... Read more »
- China's quantum satellite helps send secure messages over 1200kmQuantum communication using entangled particles is essentially unhackable, and now it has been extended to the longest distance ever, about 1200 kilometres... Read more »
- Risk of airborne coronavirus spread being underplayed, say researchersOver 200 scientists have signed a letter calling for the world to recognise the potential for the coronavirus to be transmitted through small airborne droplets, and to take steps to protect against them... Read more »
- Covid-19 news: Everyone should wear face coverings, says Royal SocietyThe latest coronavirus news updated every day including coronavirus cases, the latest news, features and interviews from New Scientist and essential information about the covid-19 pandemic... Read more »
- Why hasn't the UK seen a second wave of the coronavirus?Scientists have repeatedly warned of a second surge of covid-19 infections as restrictions ease in the UK, but it hasn’t happened – were they wrong or is it still to come?... Read more »
- Europe wants to use hydrogen to slow climate change - will it work?The European Commission is set to announce a new strategy to turn the universe’s most abundant element into a way for the EU to decarbonise polluting industries and transport... Read more »
- Mysterious Stone Age flint artefacts may be crude sculptures of humansHundreds of distinctive flint objects from a Stone Age village in Jordan seem to have been a form of symbolic communication – perhaps even figurines of people... Read more »