'Dream team' to study ice loss on Greenland glacier to better forecast rising oceans

Last month a new projection of sea-level rise by the year 2050 spurred headlines showing more…

New twist in quest to develop understanding of time crystalline behavior

The quest to develop the understanding for time crystalline behaviour in quantum systems has taken a…

Back on all fours—Ronda the dog's pioneering prosthetic surgery

Ronda seemed doomed. The six-year-old French mastiff had developed a tumour on her paw that required…

Researchers visualize bacteria motor in first step toward human-produced electrical energy

Humans, one day, may be able to produce their own electrical energy in the same way…

Huge Earth-like worlds could host reservoirs of water deep underground

Minerals containing water can exist at much higher pressures than we knew, so they could be…

Illinois researcher's theory of pore-scale transport to enable improved flow batteries

Redox flow batteries are an emerging technology for electrochemical energy storage that could help enhance the…

Growing length of manifestos casts new light on electioneering history

From a modest 150 words to the length of a children’s book—the number of words used…

Escher's angels and demons woodcut predicts how matter deforms

Dutch artist M.C. Escher’s most famous drawing, “Circle Limit IV (Heaven and Hell)”, shows angels and…

Researchers uncover critical metabolic switch for inflammatory diseases

A research team in Trinity College Dublin has uncovered a critical role for a protein called…

A Dance That Stops 2 of Neptune’s Moons From Colliding

Astronomers detected an orbital resonance between the two innermost satellites of the mysterious ice giant planet. …