News
- Astronomy
X rays unveil secret lives of black holes
New studies challenge the notion that supermassive black holes finished growing soon after their host galaxies formed and suggest new ways to find these black holes and measure their mass.
- Agriculture
Tasteful new wrapping can protect produce
New, fruit- and vegetable-based edible packaging could reduce the amount of synthetic wrapping needed to protect food.
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New ant species plunders other ants’ farms
A newly discovered Megalomyrmex ant specializes in raiding the nest gardens of fungus-cultivating ant species.
- Health & Medicine
Vision: The risks of being too fat or too tall
Excess weight or height can have a blinding impact, fostering the development of cataracts.
- Paleontology
Genes Seem to Link Unlikely Relatives
Genetic markers on three proteins suggest a common African ancestor for elephants, aardvarks, elephant shrews, golden moles, and other animals.
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The Last Three Minutes
Computing the shape of gravitational waves to come
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Astronomy
Observations of remnants of supernova 1987A by camera and spectrograph have furnished new clues to the life of a star whose catastrophic explosion astronomers witnessed four years ago.
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Astronomy
A sprinkling of distant star clusters, throwing tantrums in stellar nurseries, polar winds and excretion disks, new echoes of supernova 1987A, and low-budget stellar spectroscopy.
