Searching for superheavies — Science News, September 8, 1973 Physicists and chemists have been actively searching for superheavy elements, substances with atomic weights and numbers [more…]
For the first time, researchers have successfully extracted and decoded RNA from an extinct animal. The thylacine, also known as the Tasmanian tiger, was a [more…]
The human body is made up of a complex community of trillions of cells of diverse shapes and sizes, all working together to keep you [more…]
Like people, leaves have their limits when it comes to heat. Scientists first reported in 1864 that the leaves of some plants could survive up [more…]
The world’s largest source of natural diamonds — and of more than 90 percent of all natural pink diamonds found so far — may have [more…]
Ask Clara Sousa-Silva about her research and she’ll be absolutely clear: Yes, she is looking for aliens. But she is not hunting them. “The idea [more…]
Some days really are longer than others. And now scientists know by precisely how much. Using a laser gyroscope, scientists have measured variations in Earth’s [more…]
A Costa Rican pirate spider lives up to the family name: It tricks closely related orb weaver spiders into “walking the plank,” right to their [more…]
Scientists have only observed supermassive black holes one billion years after the Big Bang, but astrophysicists have now breached this barrier. Astronomical observations made in [more…]
Based on the bizarre laws of quantum mechanics, quantum computers are widely regarded as the future of computing and information technology. The quantum nature of [more…]
