The road to Scandinavia's bronze age: Trade routes, metal provenance, and mixing

The geographic origins of the metals in Scandinavian mixed-metal artifacts reveal a crucial dependency on British…

Advancing quantum materials, efficient communication networks

A new project exploring novel applications of superconducting resonators has discovered these systems may be used…

To understand a childhood brain tumor, researchers turn to single-cell analysis

Investigators have revealed the cells of origin for specific subtypes of medulloblastoma, the most common malignant…

Newly identified meningeal lymphatic vessels answers key questions about brain clearance

Meningeal lymphatic vessels at the skull base are found to be the major route for brain…

Volcanoes shaped the climate before humankind

Five large volcanic eruptions occurred in the early 19th century. They caused cooling and — as…

A new framework to study congenital heart defects

Researchers reveal for the first time the full spectrum of cells that come together to make…

Causes of multidecadal climate changes

A new reconstruction of global average surface temperature change over the past 2,000 years has identified…

Climate is warming faster than it has in the last 2,000 years

In contrast to pre-industrial climate fluctuations, current, anthropogenic climate change is occurring across the whole world…

Fastest eclipsing binary, a valuable target for gravitational wave studies

Observations made with a new instrument developed for use at the 2.1-meter telescope at the National…

Developing technologies that run on light

Researchers are designing a nanoscale photon diode — a necessary component that could bring us closer…