For the first time, scientists have used DNA preserved in ancient sediments to examine how a major natural disaster affected ...

Scientists have uncovered the first robust evidence of a black hole and neutron star crashing together but orbiting in an ...

The growing paleopathological literature shows that scurvy was not a rare problem among people living in the ancient Asia-Pacific tropics. Scurvy is increasingly identified throughout the region, ...

Liquid water is considered essential for life. Surprisingly, however, stable conditions that are conducive to life could exist far from any sun. A research team from the Excellence Cluster ORIGINS at ...

Kyushu University researchers have directly observed, for the first time, how individual polymers—chain-like molecules—behave when in contact with solid surfaces. Published in the Journal of the ...

We all know that stars radiate light and much more. But radiation belts can also surround many other celestial bodies, such ...

To unlock materials of the future, including better photocatalysts or light-switchable superconductors, researchers need to understand how the valence electrons within materials respond to light at ...

A research team led by a CNRS researcher has for the first time accurately determined the age of the cave paintings at ...

A study led by McKenna Litynski, a Ph.D. graduate in anthropology and adjunct assistant professor at the University of ...

Computer scientists and weather scientists have taken the first steps toward creating an AI agent capable of analyzing and ...

Over the past decades, energy engineers have developed increasingly advanced battery technologies that can store more energy, charge faster and maintain their performance for longer. In recent years, ...

Electron movement and structures described in quantum physics allow researchers to better understand how and why materials like superconductors behave as they do. Rice University researchers Jianwei ...