Near misses at Large Hadron Collider shed light on the onset of gluon-dominated protons

New findings from University of Kansas experimental nuclear physicists Daniel Tapia Takaki and Aleksandr (Sasha) Bylinkin…

New insights help to explain why same-sex sexual interactions are so important for female bonobos

Among our two closest phylogenetic relatives, chimpanzees remain by far the more thoroughly-studied and widely-recognized species,…

Future of portable electronics: Novel organic semiconductor with exciting properties

Semiconductors are substances that have a conductivity between that of conductors and insulators. Due to their…

Bones of Roman Britons provide new clues to dietary deprivation

Researchers at the University of Bradford have shown a link between the diet of Roman Britons…

Numerical simulations probe mechanisms behind sand dune formation

If you’ve ever looked closely at a 3-D sand or sediment dune within a river or…

Solving the longstanding mystery of how friction leads to static electricity

Most people have experienced the hair-raising effect of rubbing a balloon on their head or the…

Researchers find earliest evidence of milk consumption

Researchers have found the earliest direct evidence of milk consumption anywhere in the world in the…

Water interests are fighting California's bid to block Trump's environmental rollbacks

California is close to adopting strict Obama-era federal environmental and worker safety rules that the Trump…

Amazon employees step up pressure on climate issues, plan walkout Sept. 20

A group of Amazon employees pressuring the company to take meaningful action to slow climate change…

Do animals control earth's oxygen level?

No more than 540 million years ago there was a huge boom in the diversity of…