Making thread in Bronze Age Britain

Splicing technique identified on 3,800-year-old Cambridgeshire textiles made from plant fibers.

Tropical treetops are warming, putting sensitive species at risk

New research shows that tropical forest canopies are warming significantly faster than air temperatures. That could…

Neurobiology: Finding one’s way home

The otic placode gives rise to the inner ear in vertebrates. A new study shows that…

New family photos of Mars and Saturn from Hubble

In summer 2018 the planets Mars and Saturn are, one after the other, in opposition to…

Enduring ‘radio rebound’ powered by jets from gamma-ray burst

Astronomers using ALMA studied a cataclysmic stellar explosion known as a gamma-ray burst, or GRB, and…

New two-dimensional material could revolutionize solar fuel generation

Scientists have obtained from hematite a new material with application as a photocatalyst, christened 'hematene.' The…

Black holes really just ever-growing balls of string

Black holes aren't surrounded by a burning ring of fire after all, suggests new research.

Glaciers in East Antarctica also ‘imperiled’ by climate change

Scientists have found evidence of significant mass loss in East Antarctica's Totten and Moscow University glaciers,…

Thin gap on stellar family portrait

A thin gap has been discovered on the Hertzsprung-Russell Diagram (HRD), the most fundamental of all…

Previously overlooked ‘coral ticks’ weaken degraded reefs

A previously overlooked predator -- a thumbnail-sized snail -- could be increasing the pressure on coral…