Scientists are excavating oceans and continents that destroyed life in a tag-team millions of years ago. Image credit: University of Southampton Scientists have revealed how a “tag team” between the oceans and continents wiped out marine life millions of years ago – and changed the course of evolution on Earth. Their study has uncovered a […]
(a) Simulations for the optimal pumping motion of a skateboarder on a halfpipe. (b) Height and acceleration for different pumping strategies. Image credit: Physical verification research (2024). DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevResearch.6.033132 A team of engineers and mathematicians from ETH Zurich, in collaboration with colleagues from the Institute of Statistical Mathematics and the ATR Institute International (both in […]
Yash Sondhi was looking for differences in color vision between two closely related moths, one active at night and the other during the day. Instead, he found differences in the way they keep time. Image credit: Jeremy Squire How do two species come into existence? This is a tricky question for biologists. It is generally […]
Image credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Enrico Fermi’s midday question in the war zone of Los Alamos: “Where is everyone?” has been both a gift and a problem for scientists ever since. Known as “Fermi’s Paradox,” it simply asks: Why aren’t intelligent, highly evolved aliens everywhere, even though life on Earth is ubiquitous and evolved very […]
In the blood of its human host, a small number of asexually reproducing parasites of the Plasmodium falciparum type differentiate to initiate sexual development, that is, the development of gametocytes. Gametocyte development occurs in five different stages and takes about 8 to 12 days. At the end, mature male and female gametocytes at stage 5 […]
Caption: Map of the GothamQ network among New York City’s boroughs. Image credit: Physics Magazine via APS To bring quantum networks to market, engineers must overcome the fragility of the entangled states in a fiber optic cable and ensure the efficiency of signal transmission. Scientists at Qunnect Inc. in Brooklyn, New York, have now taken […]
An antlion larva (Euroleon nostras) plays dead. Photo credit: Nigel R Franks, University of Bristol A study led by scientists at the University of Bristol shows what animals do after playing dead to avoid being killed by a predator and what the context of this behavior is. The work was published in PLoS ONE. Many […]
Image credit: CC0 Public Domain As the world population continues to grow, there will be increasing human-animal overlap on more than half of the Earth’s land area by 2070, according to a study from the University of Michigan. Greater human-wildlife overlap could lead to more human-wildlife conflict, the UM researchers say. But understanding where that […]
Finding the intersection between science and fiction is a big part of what makes science fiction so enjoyable. Not knowing where reality ends and the author’s imagination begins is something I love to explore. I’ve seen so many times throughout history where an author could imagine or extrapolate fictional science and then – sometimes decades […]
For the third day in a row, firefighters are battling a serious forest fire in the Turkish Aegean city of Izmir. Firefighters battled a severe forest fire in Turkey’s Aegean city of Izmir for the third day in a row on Saturday, AFP reporters said, a day after hundreds of people had to be evacuated […]
