Fingerprints of Earth's original building blocks discovered in diamond-bearing rocks

Chemical signatures recently found in rock formations are providing critical insight for understanding the formation of…

Political scientist asks: Is the United States on the brink of a revolution?

Political scientists have historically been bad at foreseeing the most important developments. Few of us guessed…

IPCC report paints catastrophic picture of melting ice and rising sea levels—and reality may be even worse

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) – the UN body responsible for communicating the science…

High pressure electronic transitions a pathway to high-temperature superconductivity in hydrogen

An international experimental research team led by Professor Ho-Kwang Mao and Dr. Cheng Ji from HPSTAR,…

Researchers discover new, treatable pathway known to cause hypertension in obese people

There’s no question that as body weight increases, so too does blood pressure. Now, in a…

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NASA Armstrong Completes X-57 Wing Tests

As preparations continue for the X-57 Maxwell’s arrival at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in California…

Why are scientists so excited about a recently claimed quantum computing milestone?

A quantum computer may have solved a problem in minutes that would take the fastest conventional…

Nuclear waste is piling up: Governments need to stop dithering and take action

The UK government has launched a process to find a volunteer community who would be willing…

Discovery of prehistoric baby bottles shows infants were fed cow's milk 5,000 years ago

How did people look after their children in the Stone Age? It turns out that prehistoric…