A new study led by Yale University confirms a long-held theory about the last great mass extinction event in history and how it affected Earth’s oceans. The findings may also answer questions about how marine life eventually recovered. The researchers say it is the first direct evidence that the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction event 66 million years ...
Humankind first started farming in Mesopotamia about 11,500 years ago. Subsequently, the practices of cultivating crops, raising livestock, and the concept of private property emerged independently at perhaps a dozen other places around the world. This period is what archaeologists call the Neolithic Agricultural Revolution. It’s one of the most thoroughly-studied episodes in prehistory — ...
Just like the Moon orbits the Earth, and the Earth orbits the Sun, galaxies orbit each other according to the predictions of cosmology. For example, more than 50 discovered satellite galaxies orbit our own galaxy, the Milky Way. The largest of these is the Large Magellanic Cloud, or LMC, a large dwarf galaxy that resembles a ...
A NASA team uses supercomputing to evaluate a retropropulsion-powered descent to the Martian surface for a Mars landing. The type of vehicle that will carry people to the Red Planet is shaping up to be “like a two-story house you’re trying to land on another planet. The heat shield on the front of the vehicle ...
An international team of astronomers, led by the University of Southampton, has used state-of-the-art cameras to create a high frame-rate movie of a growing black hole system at a level of detail never seen before. In the process, they uncovered new clues to understanding the immediate surroundings of these enigmatic objects. The scientists published their work ...
Millennials desperate to digitally disconnect are being hindered by the fear of missing out (FoMo), social influences, and the increasing digitalization of tourism services, new research reveals. The study, which was carried out by the University of Greenwich, the University of East Anglia (UEA), and the University of Westminster, looked at Millennials’ attitudes to digital ...
New research led by Newcastle University has shown that it is the volume of water used during the wash cycle, rather than the spinning action of the washing machine, that is the key factor in the release of plastic microfibers from clothes. Stop using the delicate wash cycle to help save our seas. Millions of ...
Two University of Hawai’i at Mānoa researchers have identified and corrected a subtle error that was made when applying Einstein’s equations to model the growth of the universe that didn’t take into account certain characteristics of dark energy. Physicists usually assume that a cosmologically large system, such as the universe, is insensitive to details of ...
Scientists have confirmed for the first time that bacteria can change form to avoid being detected by antibiotics in the human body, which can lead to antibiotic resistance. Studying samples from elderly patients with recurring urinary tract infections, the Newcastle University team used state-of-the-art techniques to identify that bacteria can lose their cell walls — ...
Quantum computing has the potential to revolutionize technology, medicine, and science by providing faster and more efficient processors, sensors, and communication devices. But transferring information and correcting errors within a quantum computer remains a challenge to making an effective quantum computer. In a paper published in the journal Nature, researchers from Purdue University and the University of Rochester, ...
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