Scientific discoveries and research
Research led by the University of East Anglia (UEA) sheds new light on how mountain birds adapt to changes in climate. Scientists know that species di...
Iridium oxide is one of the most important—and most problematic—materials in the global push toward clean energy. It is currently the most reliable ca...
A new theoretical study led by researchers at the University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory has identified the microscopic mechanisms by w...
Oxygen is a vital and constant presence on Earth today. But that hasn't always been the case. It wasn't until around 2.3 billion years ago that oxygen...
A team of archaeologists from the Universitat Jaume I, the University of Barcelona, and the Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies (ICR...
A UT San Antonio-led international research team has identified chitin, the primary organic component of modern crab shells and insect exoskeletons, i...
For decades, scientists assumed that order drives efficiency. Yet in the bustling machinery of mitochondria—the organelles that crank out adenosine tr...
Proteins are the building blocks of life. These biomolecules comprise chains of amino acids that fold into precise shapes to perform specific jobs in...
Artificial light is one of the most ingrained features of modern life. For humans, light after dark offers convenience and a sense of safety. For wild...
Historian and Ph.D. research fellow Andreas Eliassen Grini at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) has delved into German soldier...
In a new study published in Physical Review Letters, scientists have performed the first global simulations of monster shocks—some of the strongest sh...
Researchers at Kyoto University have proposed a new physical model that explores how disturbances in the ionosphere may exert electrostatic forces wit...
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