Saturn’s Titan’s Building Blocks May be Older Than the Sun
Scientists have found evidence that nitrogen in the moon’s atmosphere originated in conditions similar to the cold birthplace of the most ancient comets from the Oort cloud, revealin...
Russia finds two ‘well-preserved’ dinosaur skeletons
People work on an excavation site in the mountains south of Kislovodsk, Russia in October, 2009 Russian paleontologists have dug up well-preserved skeletons of two dinosaurs that ro...
RIKEN press release: Pushing cells towards a higher pluripotency state
Stem cells have the unique ability to become any type of cell in the body. However, some conditions that are commonly used for culturing human stem cells have the potential to introd...
Researchers study the sun’s coronal rain in great detail
A mosaic of images obtained using the Swedish Solar Telescope (SST), revealing evidence of a large-scale coronal rain shower pouring relentlessly into the dark sunspot on the surface...
Researchers explain emergence of bacterial vortex
The chaotic motion of all those individual swimmers spontaneously organizes into a swirling vortex, with bacteria on the outer edge of the droplet moving in one direction while those...
Pushing cells towards a higher pluripotency state
Stem cells have the unique ability to become any type of cell in the body. However, some conditions that are commonly used for culturing human stem cells have the potential to introd...
New understanding of ocean passageway could aid climate change forecasts
The scientists have found that the flow of water in the Indonesian Throughflow – the network of straits that pass Indonesia’s islands – has changed since the late 2000s under the inf...
New study may improve rice productivity
In this picture, professor Yu Tanaka of Kyoto University plants rice varieties in a paddy at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. This experiment is part of the Realizing ...
New Solar Wind Downdraft Tower Could Revolutionize Wind Power Technology
The Solar Wind Downdraft Tower, created by Maryland-based Solar Wind Energy Inc. turns the traditional wind turbine design on its head by putting turbines at the base of a tubular to...
New data bolsters Higgs boson discovery
Further analysis of collisions in 2011 and 2012 has found evidence that the Higgs also decays into fermion particles, according to a new paper in Nature Physics to which Rice Univers...
Mystery Surrounding the Lost Persian Army Finally Solved
The long quest to dig out the reason behind the disappearance of a troop of 50,000 Persian soldiers in the Egyptian desert around 524 BC has ended. They were not swallowed up by a sa...
Mysterious gene functionally decoded
The protein BEM46 is found in all creatures having a nucleus. Mammals have several copies of this gene whereas fungus have only one copy. This bem46 mutant exhibited ascospore germin...
Microsoft steps up its quantum computing ambitions
Last week saw some bad news for Google’s quantum computing lab, but this week Microsoft seems to be picking up the slack. The company first launched its quantum research wing back in...
Measuring the mass of ‘massless’ electrons
After two years of effort, researchers led by Donhee Ham, Gordon McKay Professor of Electrical Engineering and Applied Physics at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Scienc...
Mammals defend against viruses differently than invertebrates
Two back-to-back studies in the journal Science last year said the answer is yes, but a study just published in Cell Reports by researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount S...
Keep your Distance: Why Humans Learned to Fear What’s Approaching
Now, a recent study published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, shows how even in modern times, negative feelings about things that approach us still may linger, t...
Image: Hubble sees a dwarf galaxy shaped by a grand design
Credit: ESA/NASA (Phys.org) —The subject of this Hubble image is NGC 5474, a dwarf galaxy located 21 million light-years away in the constellation of Ursa Major (The Great Bear). Th...
Hydrogen breakthrough could be a game-changer for the future of car fuels
A new discovery by scientists at the UK’s Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC), offers a viable solution to the challenges of storage and cost by using ammonia as a clean...
Hottest lava eruption linked to growth of first continents
(Phys.org) —A collaborative research team has discovered an important link between the eruption of Earth’s hottest lavas, the location of some of the largest ore deposits and the eme...
Growing unknown microbes one by one
To do this, Liang Ma, a postdoctoral scholar in Ismagilov’s lab, developed a way to isolate and cultivate individual bacterial species of interest. To grow these elusive microbes, th...
Fracking Chemicals Can Disrupt Hormones and May Impact Health
Now, scientists have found that these chemicals can disrupt not only the human body’s reproductive hormones, but also the glucocorticoid and thyroid hormone receptors, which are nece...
Evolution Might be Repeatable: Clovers Reveal Predisposition to Traits
Can evolution be repeated? That’s a good question, and it’s one that scientists wanted to find out. Although this particular scenario was impossible to repeat, the researchers decide...
Egg hunt to find Ice Age parents
International fossil expert Dr Gerald Grellet is working with Flinders Palaeontology Department to find the owner of a fossil egg from the Australian Ice Age. French born, US-based f...
Earth-Size Diamond Detected in Space by Astronomers : Space : Science World Report
A team of astronomers has identified the coldest, faintest white dwarf star that is approximately 11 billion years old. Using the National Radio Astronomy Observatory’s (NRAO) Green ...
Discovery of pure organic substances exhibiting the quantum spin liquid state
(a) An arrangement of dimerized molecules of κ-H3(Cat- EDT-TTF)2 on the 2-D plane, b-c. (b) An anisotropic 2-D triangular lattice made of spin-1/2 molecular dimers. On a triangular l...