Six-million-year-old ice discovered in Antarctica offers unprecedented window into a warmer Earth
Allan Hills, 2022-2023. Credit: Julia Marks Peterson, COLDEX A team of U.S. scientists has discovered the oldest directly…
New DNA evidence from Crimea sheds light on Neanderthal migration into Asia
Starosele rock shelter in the Crimean Peninsula. Credit: Serhii Telizhenko Researchers have long been attempting to piece together the…
Study may lead to improved networked quantum sensing
A four-mode linear network U for generating useful entangled states for continuous-variable distributed quantum metrology. The ratio of…
The cosmic microwave background is a wall of light—here’s how we might see beyond it
An illustration showing the timeline of the universe as we see it, looking at ever more distant objects.…
Gravitational wave events hint at ‘second-generation’ black holes
GW241011 and GW241110 infographics by Shanika Galaudage / Northwestern University / Adler Planetarium. Credit: Shanika Galaudage / Northwestern…
How missing nutrients rewire fly brains to seek out beneficial microbes
Cheese and chocolate may hold little culinary appeal for a fruit fly, yet for one deprived of nutrients,…
Dwarf galaxies tip the scales in favor of dark matter over modified gravity
In spiral galaxies like M33 (left), the link between visible matter and gravitational acceleration is well established. Faint…
Chimpanzees in Uganda use flying insects to tend their wounds, study reveals
An adolescent female, Fricka, applied a flying insect to a wound on her inner right thigh. The wound…
How animals get their spots, and why they are beautifully imperfect
Top: A male ornate boxfish. Bottom: Simulated hexagon and stripe patterns obtained by diffusiophoretic assembly of two types…
Electric signals reveal magnetic spin waves, hinting at faster computing
(a) The Kagomé spin lattice of potassium iron jarosite along with (b) DM vectors comprising the in-plane direction…