An evolution revolution has begun after scientists extracted genetic information from a 1.7 million-year-old rhino tooth—the…
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Probing a nuclear clock transition
Modern atomic clocks are the most accurate measurement tools currently available. The best current instruments deviate…
Towering balloon-like structures discovered near center of the Milky Way
An international team of astronomers, including Northwestern University’s Farhad Yusef-Zadeh, has discovered one of the largest…
First water detected on potentially 'habitable' planet
K2-18b, which is eight times the mass of Earth, is now the only planet orbiting a…
Cutting acrylamide in fried and baked snacks
In 2002, the discovery of acrylamide in certain snacks rattled consumers and the food industry. Acrylamide,…
Fulfilling a dream: To study Earth from space
During her childhood in northern Maine, Jessica Meir often stared at the night sky and wondered…
Aphid-stressed pines show different secondary organic aerosol formation
Plants emit gases, called volatile organic compounds (VOCs), that enter the atmosphere, where they can interact…
Malaria could be felled by an Antarctic sea sponge
The frigid waters of the Antarctic may yield a treatment for a deadly disease that affects…
Conductivity at the edges of graphene bilayers
The conductivity of dual layers of graphene greatly depends on the states of carbon atoms at…
Historically black colleges give graduates a wage boost
In 2010, two economists claimed that graduates of historically black colleges and universities, or HBCUs, suffer…