Neolithic ceramics reveal dairy processing from milk of multiple species
A new study has found evidence of cheesemaking, using milk from multiple animals in Late Neolithic Poland.
New study finds early warning signs prior to 2002 Antarctic ice shelf collapse
In 2002, an area of ice about the size of Rhode Island dramatically broke away from Antarctica as the Larsen B ice shelf collapsed....
Humans are leaving behind a ‘frozen signature’ of microbes on Mount Everest
Thanks to technological advances in microbial DNA analysis, researchers have discovered that mountaineers' boots aren't the only things leaving footprints on the world's tallest...
Air pollution impairs successful mating of flies
A research team demonstrates that increased levels of ozone resulting from anthropogenic air pollution can degrade insect sex pheromones, which are crucial mating signals,...
Game-changing high-performance semiconductor material could help slash heat emissions
Researchers have engineered a material with the potential to dramatically cut the amount of heat power plants release into the atmosphere.
Using the NASA Openscapes Framework to enable open science
By Audrey PayneScience is changing. Or rather, the way that scientific research is being conducted, shared, and replicated is changing. It is becoming more...
Arctic sea ice reaches maximum extent for 2023
Arctic sea ice has likely reached its maximum extent for the year, at 14.62 million square kilometers (5.64 million square miles) on March 6,...
Mirror-image molecules can modify signaling in neurons
With the aid of some sea slugs, chemists have discovered that one of the smallest conceivable tweaks to a biomolecule can elicit one of...
The ‘Rapunzel’ virus: an evolutionary oddity
Extremely long tail provides structural window into how bacteria-infecting viruses called phages assemble.
Cleaning up the atmosphere with quantum computing
Practical carbon capture technologies are still in the early stages of development, with the most promising involving a class of compounds called amines that...
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