In recent years, scientists have teased out many of the secrets of biomineralization, the process by which sea urchins grow spines, mollusks build their shells and corals make their skeletons, not to mention how mammals and ...
Archaeology
Aug 20, 2019
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Earth's magnetic field seems steady and true—reliable enough to navigate by.
Earth Sciences
Aug 7, 2019
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Along with flying and invisibility, high on the list of every child's aspirational superpowers is the ability to see through or around walls or other visual obstacles. That capability is now a big step closer to reality as ...
Optics & Photonics
Aug 5, 2019
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The sun's solar wind affects nearly everything in the solar system. It can disrupt the function of Earth's satellites and creates the lights of the auroras.
Space Exploration
Jul 29, 2019
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The world's wood products—all the paper, lumber, furniture and more—offset just 1 percent of annual global carbon emissions by locking away carbon in woody forms, according to new research.
Environment
Jul 1, 2019
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A new, more accessible and much cheaper approach to surveying the topology and strength of interstellar magnetic fields—which weave through space in our galaxy and beyond, representing one of the most potent forces in nature—has ...
Astronomy
Jun 10, 2019
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In August 2016, areas of Yellowstone National Park that burned in 1988 burned again. Shortly after, in October 2016, ecologist Monica Turner and her team of graduate students visited the park to begin to assess the landscape.
Earth Sciences
May 20, 2019
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147
The storm on Lake Michigan lasted only 15 minutes, but the conditions it put into motion took seven lives.
Earth Sciences
Mar 19, 2019
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3-D printing has revolutionized the fields of healthcare, biomedical engineering, manufacturing and art design.
Materials Science
Mar 12, 2019
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75
Freeing thousands of microorganisms to swim in random directions in an infinite pool of liquid may not sound like a recipe for order, but eventually the swarm will go with its own flow.
General Physics
Mar 4, 2019
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