The context of the Pike River cliff-top sites and an example of an eroding midden lens contained within Woorinen Formation sediments above a carbonate palaeosol (MR = Murray River). Credit: Radiocarbon (2024). DOI: 10.1017/RDC.2024.99 New research by Flinders University researchers, conducted in partnership with the River Murray and Mallee Aboriginal Corporation (RMMAC), has documented ancient […]
The eruption of Mount Vesuvius (artist’s illustration) buried the city of Pompeii, Italy, in at least six metres of volcanic debris.Credit: Culture Club/Bridgeman/Getty Editor’s note: this article includes a photograph of a plaster cast of a person who died at Pompeii. Bits of human bone recovered from Pompeii, Italy, have yielded DNA from people who […]
A diver surveying Magnetic Island in Queensland. Credit: Maya Srinivasan A study has found concerning new evidence of long-term declines in coral reef fish around highly visited inshore islands of the Great Barrier Reef. Scientists surveyed reefs at 100 sites around the Palm Islands, Magnetic Island, Whitsunday Islands, and Keppel Islands over a 14 year […]
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The puzzling, fascinating surface of Jupiter’s icy moon Europa looms large in this newly-reprocessed color view, made from images taken by NASA’s Galileo spacecraft in the late 1990s. This is the color view of Europa from Galileo that shows the largest portion of the moon’s surface at the highest resolution. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SETI Institute. Scientists have […]
RESEARCH BRIEFINGS 06 November 2024 The body’s clock is essential for anticipating daily environmental changes. Surprisingly, clock genes are highly expressed in innate immune cells that produce the inflammatory protein interleukin-17A, particularly in body fat. The clock drives a rhythmic production of this protein, which in turn contributes to the metabolic rhythms of fat.
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Why is human culture—the shared body of knowledge passed down across generations—so much more powerful than animal cultures? “What’s special about our species?” is a question scientists have wrestled with for centuries, and now a scientist at Arizona State University has a new hypothesis that could change the way we perceive […]
Wong, H. S. P. et al. Phase change memory. Proc. IEEE 98, 2201–2227 (2010). Article Google Scholar Nam, S. W. et al. Electrical wind force-driven and dislocation-templated amorphization in phase-change nanowires. Science 336, 1561–1566 (2012). Article ADS CAS PubMed Google Scholar Nukala, P., Lin, C. C., Composto, R. & Agarwal, R. Ultralow-power switching via defect […]
In an Electron-Ion Collider (EIC) collision, interactions between a virtual photon emitted by the colliding electron can reveal the arrangement of quarks and gluons within a hadron—in this case a proton that is part of a larger nucleus. Credit: Tiffany Bowman / Brookhaven National Laboratory Nuclear physics theorists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) […]
We may earn revenue from the products available on this page and participate in affiliate programs. Learn more › The best star projectors make your ceiling more exciting. Stan Horaczek Beyond a few bright celestial objects, the rise of light pollution has made it difficult for most people to experience a genuinely starry night sky—and […]
