A single drop of seawater can contain a wide representation of ocean microbes from around the…
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NASA's NICER delivers best-ever pulsar measurements, first surface map
Astrophysicists are redrawing the textbook image of pulsars, the dense, whirling remains of exploded stars, thanks…
Tracking lab-grown tissue with light
Someday, doctors would like to grow limbs and other body tissue for soldiers who have lost…
Short-lived light sources discovered in the sky
A project lead by an international team of researchers use publicly available data with images of…
Harnessing nature's defences against tsunamis
As sea levels rise and adverse weather events become more common, vulnerable coastal communities are at…
How humans learnt to dance; from the Chimpanzee Conga
Psychologist observing two chimpanzees in a zoo have discovered that they performed a behaviour hitherto never…
Genetic 'clock' predicts lifespan in vertebrates
A model that uses genetic markers to accurately estimate the lifespans of different vertebrate species is…
Team releases high-precision map of Antarctic ice sheet bed topography
A University of California, Irvine-led team of glaciologists has unveiled the most accurate portrait yet of…
Carolina parakeet extinction was driven by human causes, DNA sequencing reveals
Researchers from the Institute of Evolutionary Biology (IBE, a joint institute of the Pompeu Fabra University…
Scandinavians' little linguistic hat trick
Linguist Dave Kush at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology’s Department of Language and Literature…