How to handle fragile states

A concept known as ‘fragile topology’ has been puzzling physicists ever since it emerged two years…

Ship noise leaves crabs too stressed to hide from danger

The ocean is getting too loud even for crabs. Normally, shore crabs (Carcinus maenas) can slowly…

Sea turtles have a deadly attraction to stinky plastic

Sea turtles around the world are threatened by marine plastic debris, mostly through ingestion and entanglement.…

'Strange' glimpse into neutron stars and symmetry violation

New results from precision particle detectors at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) offer a fresh…

Geological Mapping and Chronology of Lunar Landing Sites: Apollo 11

Geological Mapping and Chronology of Lunar Landing Sites: Apollo 11 Click here for original…

Researchers find more evidence of catastrophic cosmic impact 12 800 years ago

A group of researchers discovered more evidence of a catastrophic cosmic impact around 12 800 years…

COVID-19 infections in U.S. may be much higher, new estimates show

By March 1, 2020, thousands of people in the U.S. may have already been infected by…

Safety zone saves giant moons from fatal plunge

Numerical simulations showed that the temperature gradient in the disk of gas around a young gas…

New study unveils the mechanism of DNA high-order structure formation

A recent study, affiliated with South Korea’s Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST) has…

Why organisms shrink in a warming world

Everyone is talking about global warming. A team of paleontologists has recently investigated how prehistoric organisms…