Researchers find evidence of a cosmic impact that caused destruction of one of the world's earliest human settlements

Before the Taqba Dam impounded the Euphrates River in northern Syria in the 1970s, an archaeological…

NASA satellite offers urban carbon dioxide insights

A new NASA/university study of carbon dioxide emissions for 20 major cities around the world provides…

Gene regulatory factors enable bacteria to kill rivals and establish symbiosis in a squid

Two factors that control the expression of a key gene required by luminescent bacteria to kill…

Machine learning illuminates material's hidden order

Extreme temperature can do strange things to metals. In severe heat, iron ceases to be magnetic.…

This Black Hole Blew a Hole in the Cosmos

The galaxy cluster Ophiuchus was doing just fine until WISEA J171227.81-232210.7 — a black hole several…

Resurrecting ancient protein partners reveals origin of protein regulation

After reconstructing the ancient forms of two cellular proteins, scientists discovered the earliest known instance of…

West coast dungeness crab stable or increasing even with intensive harvest

Fishermen from California to Washington caught almost all the available legal-size male Dungeness crab each year…

Showing robots how to do your chores

By observing humans, robots learn to perform complex tasks, such as setting a table. …

Using technology during mealtimes may decrease food intake, study finds

When 119 young adults consumed a meal while playing a simple computer game for 15 minutes,…

How waves of 'clutches' in the motor cortex help our brains initiate movement

Scientists have discovered that signals in the motor cortex act like a series of clutches when…