News
- Paleontology
Early birds could achieve liftoff
Early birds and other flying dinosaurs had the strong legs and wing speed needed to launch into the air directly from the ground, researchers argue.
- Life
Scientists need to redraw picture of cell’s biggest organelle
A close-up view of the cell’s endoplasmic reticulum reveals a different structure.
- Climate
Climate change shifts how long ants hang on to coveted real estate
Simulated climate warming reveals a new pattern in turnover of ant nests.
- Genetics
HIV came to NYC at least a decade before virus ID’d
DNA analysis of early viral strains tracks U.S. debut to early ’70s
- Quantum Physics
‘Time crystal’ created in lab
A chain of ions creates a crystal that repeats in time instead of in space.
- Health & Medicine
Training for parents may lessen some autism symptoms in kids
Training parents may help with some autism symptoms, a new study suggests.
- Climate
Wanted: New ways to chill air conditioners, fridges
A new amendment to the Montreal Protocol will phase out potent greenhouse gases currently used in air conditioners and refrigerators, prompting a hunt for eco-friendly alternatives.
- Particle Physics
Latest dark matter searches leave scientists empty-handed
As the most popular candidates for dark matter fail to show up in detectors, scientists are broadening the search.
- Neuroscience
Frequent liars show less activity in key brain structure
Brain activity changed as people lied more, a new study finds.
- Physics
Physicists find atomic nucleus with a ‘bubble’ in the middle
Silicon-34 has an unusually small number of protons in its center.
- Chemistry
Water softeners get friendlier to health, environment
New technology softens water without adding sodium, which ends up in drinking water and contaminates the environment.
- Genetics
DNA data offer evidence of unknown extinct human relative
Melanesians may carry genetic evidence of a previously unknown extinct human relative.
