Science
Scientific discoveries and research
New survey measures make double consciousness testable in studies of Black Americans
W.E.B. Du Bois' standing as a distinguished social scientist, with a distinguished body of work, has been subjected to the same marginalizing forces he examined...
A type of Arctic Ocean bacteria may be using acetone to turn carbon into food
A newly identified Arctic Ocean bacterium may have an unusual way of making the building blocks it needs to grow. Using acetone, a common chemical in seawater,...
Research ties heat to mealybug feeding and pasture damage
High temperatures change how mealybugs feed, and that could help explain why some pasture mealybug infestations do far more damage than others, according to ear...
Physicists step closer to the 'Zeptoverse' after 42-year particle search
Physicists have found evidence of a particle decay so rare that it is expected to occur only around once in every 10 billion "beauty" particles. The result, fro...
Afforestation reshapes wildfire activity across temperate regions worldwide
Tree planting provides wood, biomass and climate benefits, but the location where those new forests are established matters. An international study by researche...
JWST may have found where heavy black hole seeds formed
Astrophysicists think that the supermassive black holes (SMBH) we see in the modern universe are the result of a long, drawn-out process. That process is referr...
'Evolution in the act': Forest lizards reveal rapid adaptation in a warming world
Yale research scientist Saúl Domínguez-Guerrero didn't set out to catch "evolution in the act" when he traveled to the Caribbean with a team of Yale researchers...
Beetle poop may have helped shape millions of years of yeast evolution
University at Buffalo scientists have found evidence that different species of yeast have shared genes originally acquired from an ancient virus—and the guts an...
Why we give flowers to those in grief—or buy them for ourselves when we're sad
During his renowned excavations at the Shanidar Cave in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, American archaeologist Ralph Solecki located burial sites containing polle...
Why are we so squeamish about eating hagfish?
When fishers are out working their boats, they are typically targeting a specific type of fish. However, other species often end up in their nets or trawls as w...
Fingernail-sized chip untangles mixed light into clean beams
Stanford engineers and colleagues designed a chip that can take a muddled mixture of light from multiple lasers and output clean beams of light. It's the first...
A tiny shift exposes a cold brown dwarf masquerading as an early galaxy
A faint red object spotted by the James Webb Space Telescope originally appeared to offer a possible glimpse of the universe's first galaxies. But images taken...