Early humans thrived in this drowned South African landscape

Scientists have reconstructed the paleoecology the Paleo-Agulhas Plain, a now-drowned landscape on the southern tip of…

The dreaming brain tunes out the outside world

Scientists have shown that the brain suppresses information from the outside world, such as the sound…

Scientists break the link between a quantum material's spin and orbital states

Until now, electron spins and orbitals were thought to go hand in hand in a class…

U.S. layoffs surged to record high of 11.4 million in March

U.S. layoffs soared in March to a record 11.4 million after state and local governments closed…

Black holes and neutron stars merge unseen in dense star clusters

Mergers between black holes and neutron stars in dense star clusters are quite unlike those that…

ISS Daily Summary Report – 5/15/2020

Payloads  Cryo Chiller: Following the checkout of the unit earlier this week, the Cryo Chiller was…

Covid-19: Inside the UK's top-secret military lab

Military scientists at Porton Down have shown the BBC the work they are doing investigating coronavirus. …

Bizarre new species discovered… on Twitter

While many of us use social media to be tickled silly by cat videos or wowed…

Dead Sea Scroll fragments thought to be blank reveal text

New research has revealed that four Dead Sea Scroll manuscript fragments housed at The University of…

New technology will show how RNA regulates gene activity

The discovery of a huge number of long non-protein coding RNAs, aka lncRNAs, in the mammalian…