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The exoplanet is spiralling in towards its star, and will be completely obliterated.... Read more »

Our beautiful planet really is made of stardust.... Read more »

The most precise kind of chemistry.... Read more »

We can't pretend epidemics won't happen again.... Read more »

In several new studies, researchers explore the importance of learning and knowledge in environmental decision-making and the different ways in which scientific knowledge can become more relevant and useful for societies.... Read more »

The governing body for the Paralympics recently lowered the allowable height for sprinters who use prosthetic legs, or blades, during competition. The rules are based on the assumption that the taller you are the faster you run. But a new study has found otherwise.... Read more »

To determine whale pregnancy, researchers have relied on visual cues or hormone tests of blubber collected via darts, but the results were often inconclusive. Research points to a weakness of previous testing and evaluation methods and provides a new hormone testing regime that offers better results.... Read more »

Enough water will come from the ground as a byproduct of oil production from unconventional reservoirs during the coming decades to theoretically counter the need to use fresh water for hydraulic fracturing operations in many of the nation's large oil-producing areas. While other industries might want to recycle some of... Read more »

A growing body of research shows that birds' spring migration has been getting earlier and earlier in recent decades. New research on Black-throated Blue Warblers, a common songbird that migrates from Canada and the eastern US to Central America and back every year, uses fifty years of bird-banding data to... Read more »

(Frontiers) A preclinical in vitro study shows that selected plant-based herbal medicines, especially Ghanaian quinine and Japanese knotweed, work better than antibiotics against the bacterium that causes Lyme disease. These findings represent an important step towards the development of treatments that might be better tolerated and more effective than the... Read more »

(Penn State) A signal originally detected by the Kepler spacecraft has been validated as an exoplanet using the Habitable-zone Planet Finder.... Read more »

(Cornell University) A Cornell-led team took a novel, interdisciplinary approach to analyzing the behavior of breast tumor cells by employing a statistical modeling technique more commonly used in physics and economics. The team was able to demonstrate how the diversity, or heterogeneity, of cancer cells can be influenced by their... Read more »

(National Radio Astronomy Observatory) An international team of astronomers used two of the most powerful radio telescopes in the world to create more than three hundred images of planet-forming disks around very young stars in the Orion Clouds. These images reveal new details about the birthplaces of planets and the... Read more »

(Chinese Academy of Sciences Headquarters) Researchers led by Prof. WANG Feng at the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics (DICP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have reported that photocatalytic decarboxylation is an efficient alternate pathway for converting biomass-derived fatty acids into alkanes under mild conditions of ambient temperature and pressure.... Read more »

By answering the question posed in Molyneux’s problem the invertebrates may have demonstrated an ability to internally represent objects -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com ... Read more »

An encounter with Arrokoth at the outskirts of the solar system offers the best evidence yet for how worlds coalesce from dust -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com ... Read more »

Researchers have confirmed a long-predicted key similarity between hydrogen and antihydrogen -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com ... Read more »

Butterfly wings contain complex thermodynamic structures that can teach us to make efficient—and colorful—cooling materials -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com ... Read more »

A new study finds algorithms’ predictions are slightly superior but not under all circumstances -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com ... Read more »

A difference in the properties of matter and antimatter could help explain our universe – but a property called the Lamb shift is similar in particles of both... Read more »

Brian Greene's new book argues that life is rare and extraordinary, probably transient, and that in the search for purpose, the only significant answers are ones we create  ... Read more »

A communications network secured by the laws of quantum physics would be unhackable, but building one requires a component called a quantum memory, which is still being developed... Read more »

This week, hide behind the sofa from mind-altering plants, listen and learn from technologies past and find out how the world is underpinned by numbers... Read more »

In a universe that unthinkingly follows the rules, human agency is an anomaly. Can physics ever make sense of our power to change the physical world at will?... Read more »

The earliest cave-dwelling animal identified from the dinosaur era is a ghostly white cockroach with tiny eyes and wings that was preserved in amber... Read more »

There are a number of open questions as to how the covid-19 coronavirus spread on board the Diamond Princess cruise ship, where passengers were quarantined since 3 February... Read more »

A number of ant species produce acid in a poison gland in their abdomen to spray at enemies, and now it seems they also drink it to kill pathogens in their food... Read more »

Cleaning and cooking can produce potentially harmful chemicals that stay in the air, and now researchers have found that briefly opening a window doesn't help as these substances also stick to surfaces... Read more »

Blue tits and great tits don’t need to taste unpleasant foods to avoid them – they can learn not to try them by seeing another bird’s disgusted response, even if it’s only on video... Read more »