For three years, anthropologist Alan Rogers has attempted to solve an evolutionary puzzle. His research untangles…
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Old carbon reservoirs unlikely to cause massive greenhouse gas release
Permafrost in the soil and methane hydrates deep in the ocean are large reservoirs of ancient…
Researchers develop new method to isolate atomic sheets and create new materials
Two-dimensional materials from layered van der Waals (vdW) crystals hold great promise for electronic, optoelectronic, and…
Bumblebees can experience an object using one sense and later recognize it using another
How are we able to find things in the dark? And how can we imagine how…
Media Invited to National Kickoff of NASA's Lunar Surface Innovation Consortium
NASA will kick off the Lunar Surface Innovation Consortium on Friday, Feb. 28. Click…
Beyond the brim, Sombrero Galaxy's halo suggests turbulent past
These latest Hubble observations of the Sombrero galaxy indicate only a tiny fraction of older, metal-poor…
Physicists grab individual atoms in ground-breaking experiment
In a first for quantum physics, researchers have ‘held’ individual atoms in place and observed previously…
Huge stores of Arctic sea ice likely contributed to past climate cooling
Climate scientists propose that massive amounts of melting sea ice in the Arctic drained into the…
The Earth formed much faster than previously thought
By measuring iron isotopes, researchers have shown that our planet originally formed much faster than previously…
Sub-Neptune sized planet validated with the habitable-zone planet finder
A signal originally detected by the Kepler spacecraft has been validated as an exoplanet using the…