Articles of interest from across the scientific community.
Has the blind watchmaker been outflanked by mankind’s technological advances? What to evolve that an app cannot already do? …
To kilonova: when one neutron star collides with another. Such collisions are responsible for producing earth's loads of heavy elements, including gold, silver, and xenon …
Fossilized footprints in the White Sands National Park in New Mexico indicate that humans lived in North America as early as 23,000 years ago …
While black holes and toddlers don’t have much in common, they are similar in one aspect: both are messy eaters, generating ample evidence that a meal has taken place …
With man away, the birds come out to play: During the US lockdown, bird migration increased in pandemic-altered urban areas …
Data suggests that an early form of dark energy was present in the 300,000 years after the Big Bang, potentially explaining the universe’s rapid expansion …
In protoplanetary disks found swirling around newly formed stars are large complex organic molecules, feeding young planets with the seeds of life …
One man’s trash: Thorium is a waste product of the rare earth mining industry. In China, this metal is now being tested as an alternative to uranium …
Dream interpretation: Not just useful plot devices, dreams, and particularly REM sleep, play an important role in clearing waste from the brain …
Climate change is not just affecting what Earth looks like, but also what the animals who inhabit Earth look like, as they adapt to new norms …
White dwarf stars are slow burners, that much was known. But the fact that these large masses can burn stably has come as a great surprise …
How did cell division develop, when the splitting of a cell requires structures far beyond those present at the beginning of life? Protocells posit an answer …
Easier to manufacture, to store, and to administer, DNA vaccines represent a new hope in the fight against COVID-19, and a host of other diseases …
The Dissolution of the English monasteries opened formerly monastic lands to commercialization, laying the ground for the Industrial Revolution …
Provenance is everything! A photon will behave more like a particle or more like a wave depending on its source, further complicating complementary …
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