The New York metropolitan area has seen tremendous economic growth, but many residents in rapidly gentrifying…
The emergence of male and female traits in the development of beetle horns
The male Japanese rhinoceros beetle, Trypoxylus dichotomus, which lives on Japan's main island, has big horns…
Martian methane mystery: First results from the ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter
New evidence of the impact of the recent planet-encompassing dust storm on water in the atmosphere,…
How much evidence is enough to declare a new species of human?
The announcement of a new species of ancient human (more correctly hominin) from the Philippines, reported…
Attention skills in a nonhuman cooperative breeding species
Cooperative breeding may facilitate the development of sophisticated communicative abilities such as intentionality and joint attention…
Lower pension, shorter life
Income and social status have an increasing effect on life expectancy in Germany. On average, men…
Working together as a ‘virtual telescope,’ observatories around the world produce first direct images of a black hole
An international team of over 200 astronomers, including scientists from MIT's Haystack Observatory, has captured the…
The Discovery of the Antarctic Ozone Hole
Abstract: The author Nassim Taleb has coined the term ‘‘Black Swan’’ event to describe a very…
A Deep X-Ray Look at Abell 2142-Viscosity Constraints from Kelvin-Helmholtz Eddies, a Displaced Cool Peak that Makes a Warm Core, and A Possible Plasma Depletion Layer
Abstract: cold fronts in detail. We find that the southern cold front exhibits well-developed Kelvin–Helmholtz (KH)…
Age of Martian Air: Time Scales for Martian Atmospheric Transport
Abstract: The mean time since air in the Martian atmosphere was in the low-latitude boundary layer…