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April 13, 2020
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Marmoset (stock image). Ucayalipithecus perdita would have been very small, similar in size to a modern-day marmoset. | Credit: (c) Clement Horvath / stock.adobe.com

Ancient Teeth from Peru Hint Now-Extinct Monkeys Crossed Atlantic from Africa

Apr. 9, 2020 — Four fossilized monkey teeth discovered deep in the Peruvian Amazon provide new evidence that more than one group of ancient ... read more

In a First, NASA Measures Wind Speed on a Brown Dwarf

Apr. 9, 2020 — Not quite planets and not quite stars, brown dwarfs are cosmic in-betweeners. Learning about their atmospheres could help us understand giant planets around other ... read more
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Archaeologists on a 5,000-Year-Old Egg Hunt

Apr. 8, 2020 — Scientists are closer to cracking a 5,000-year-old mystery surrounding the ancient trade and production of decorated ostrich eggs. Long before Fabergé, ornate ostrich eggs ... read more
Dinosaur egg concept (stock image). | Credit: (c) Esa Riutta / stock.adobe.com

Synchrotron X-Ray Sheds Light on Some of the World's Oldest Dinosaur Eggs

Apr. 9, 2020 — Scientists have reconstructed the skulls of some of the world's oldest known dinosaur embryos in 3D, using powerful and non-destructive synchrotron techniques. They found ... read more
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New Info on Interstellar Magnetic Field in Solar Neighborhood

Apr. 8, 2020 — An international research team has mapped the interstellar magnetic field structure and interstellar matter distribution in the solar ... read more

Harnessing the Power of Electricity-Producing Bacteria for Programmable 'Biohybrids'

Apr. 8, 2020 — Someday, microbial cyborgs -- bacteria combined with electronic devices -- could be useful in fuel cells, biosensors and bioreactors. But first, scientists need to develop materials that not only ... read more

New 'Refrigerator' Super-Cools Molecules to Nanokelvin Temperatures

Apr. 8, 2020 — Physicists have found a way to cool molecules of sodium lithium down to 200 billionths of a Kelvin, just a hair above absolute zero. They did so by applying a technique called collisional cooling, in ... read more

Revolutionary Light-Emitting Silicon

Apr. 8, 2020 — Emitting light from silicon has been the 'Holy Grail' in the microelectronics industry for decades. Solving this puzzle would revolutionize computing, as chips will become faster than ever. ... read more

Personalized Microrobots Swim Through Biological Barriers, Deliver Drugs to Cells

Apr. 7, 2020 — Biohybrid robots on the micrometer scale can swim through the body and deliver drugs to tumors or provide other cargo-carrying functions. To be successful, they must consist of materials that can ... read more

'Smart Toilet' Monitors for Signs of Disease

Apr. 6, 2020 — There's a new disease-detecting technology in the lab, and its No. 1 source of data is number one. And number ... read more
Spiral galaxy illustration (stock image). | Credit: (c) Alexandr Mitiuc / stock.adobe.com

The Milky Way's Satellites Help Reveal Link Between Dark Matter Halos and Galaxy Formation

Apr. 6, 2020 — Just like we orbit the sun and the moon orbits us, the Milky Way has satellite galaxies with their own satellites. Drawing from data on those galactic neighbors, a new model suggests the Milky Way ... read more

Sulfur 'Spices' Alien Atmospheres

Apr. 6, 2020 — They say variety is the spice of life, and now new discoveries suggest that a certain elemental 'variety' -- sulfur -- is indeed a 'spice' that can perhaps point to signs of ... read more

Insect Wings Hold Antimicrobial Clues for Improved Medical Implants

Apr. 6, 2020 — Some insect wings such as cicada and dragonfly possess nanopillar structures that kill bacteria upon contact. However, to date, the precise mechanisms that cause bacterial death have been unknown. ... read more

Making Stronger Concrete With 'Sewage-Enhanced' Steel Slag

Apr. 6, 2020 — Researchers examined whether steel slag that had been used to treat wastewater could then be recycled as an aggregate material for concrete. Their findings? Concrete made with post-treatment steel ... read more

Cold War Nuclear Bomb Tests Reveal True Age of Whale Sharks

Apr. 6, 2020 — Atomic bomb tests conducted during the Cold War have helped scientists for the first time correctly determine the age of whale ... read more

Tooth Be Told: Earless Seals Existed in Ancient Australia

Apr. 3, 2020 — A fossilised seal tooth, dating back approximately three million years, found on a Victorian beach proves earless seals existed in Australia in prehistoric times. Known as monachines, the seals ... read more

Scientists Discover a New Class of Taste Receptors

Apr. 3, 2020 — Evolution is a tinkerer, not an engineer. 'Evolution does not produce novelties from scratch. It works with what already exists,' wrote Nobel laureate François Jacob in 1977, and ... read more
Homo erectus word cloud (stock image). | Credit: (c) ibreakstock / stock.adobe.com

When Three Species of Human Ancestor Walked the Earth

Apr. 2, 2020 — Scientists share details of the most ancient fossil of Homo erectus known and discuss how these new findings are forcing us to rewrite a part of our species' evolutionary ... read more

Turning Cells Into Computers With Protein Logic Gates

Apr. 2, 2020 — New artificial proteins have been created to function as molecular logic gates. Like their electronic counterparts in computers, these biochemical tools can be used to program the behavior of complex ... read more

The Facial Expressions of Mice

Apr. 2, 2020 — Researchers have described different emotional facial expressions for mice. Similar to humans, the face of a mouse looks completely different when it tastes something sweet or bitter, or when it ... read more

Scientists Develop 'Backpack' Computers to Track Wild Animals in Hard-to-Reach Habitats

Apr. 2, 2020 — To truly understand an animal species is to observe its behavior and social networks in the wild. With new technology, researchers are able to track tiny animals that divide their time between flying ... read more

Giant Umbrellas Shift from Convenient Canopy to Sturdy Storm Shield

Apr. 2, 2020 — In a new approach to storm surge protection, a team has created a preliminary design for dual-purpose kinetic umbrellas that would provide shade during fair weather and could be tilted in advance of ... read more

Cocky Kids: The Four-Year-Olds With the Same Overconfidence as Risk-Taking Bankers

Apr. 2, 2020 — Overconfidence in one's own abilities despite clear evidence to the contrary is present and persistent in children as young as four, a new study has ... read more

Fourth New Pterosaur Discovery in Matter of Weeks

Apr. 2, 2020 — You wait ages for a pterosaur and then four come along at once. Hot on the heels of a recent paper discovering three new species of pterosaur, palaeobiologists have identified another new species -- ... read more
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