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Meteorite Impacts on Early Oceans May Have Created DNA Building Blocks

Formation of nucleobases in meteorite impact reactions. Image credit: Yoshihiro Furukawa.
Aug 18, 2015 by News Staff

Meteorite impact reactions may have generated building blocks for life in the oceans of the prebiotic Earth, says a team of scientists led by Dr Yoshihiro Furukawa of Tohoku University, Japan. Formation of nucleobases in meteorite impact reactions. Image credit: Yoshihiro Furukawa. All the genetic information of modern life is stored in DNA as sequences of nucleobases. However, formation of nucleobases from inorganic compounds available on the early...

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The King of Brobdingnag and Gulliver by James Gillray, 1803. Image credit: Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Scientist Deciphers Mystery Words from Gulliver’s Travels

Aug 16, 2015 by News Staff

According to Prof Irving Rothman from the University of Houston, mystery words in Jonathan Swift’s famous novel, Gulliver’s Travels, are, in fact,...

Key molecular process in brain is different in males and females, according to a new study.

Female and Male Brains Operate Differently at Molecular Level, New Study Reveals

Aug 12, 2015 by News Staff

A new study published in the Journal of Neuroscience has revealed an intrinsic biological difference between males and females in the molecular regulation...

The Airy meridian marked as the ‘Prime Meridian of the World’ (dotted line), and the modern reference meridian indicating zero longitude using GPS (solid line). Image credit: Google Maps / Infoterra Ltd. / Bluesky.

Scientists Explain Why Greenwich Prime Meridian Moved

Aug 12, 2015 by News Staff

The ‘Prime Meridian’ that’s been running through the Royal Observatory at Greenwich, UK, since 1884 is now located 335 feet (102 meters) east of...

Earth as seen on July 6, 2015 from a distance of one million miles by NASA’s EPIC camera on the DSCOVR satellite. Image credit: NOAA / NASA / U.S. Air Force.

Earth’s Population Will Reach 11 Billion by 2100, United Nations Experts Say

Aug 11, 2015 by News Staff

The world’s population, now 7.3 billion, is expected to reach the 11 billion mark by 2100, according to revised population projections released yesterday...

Scientists say the human color perception changes between seasons. Image credit: BenHur / Nova / Jongleur100 / SpaceJ / CC BY-SA 3.0.

Research Sheds New Light on How We Process Color

Aug 7, 2015 by News Staff

A new study led by Lauren Welbourne from the University of York, UK, has revealed that humans see things differently in summer compared with winter. Scientists...

An artist’s depiction of Earth’s magnetic field deflecting high-energy protons from the Sun around 4 billion years ago. Image credit: Michael Osadciw / University of Rochester.

Earth’s Magnetic Field Older than Thought, Says New Study

Jul 31, 2015 by News Staff

American and Canadian scientists have reported in the latest issue of Science that the magnetic field of our planet is at least 4 billion years old, up...

Dr Yan Li and co-authors followed the journey of water through the Tarim Basin from the rivers at the edge of the valley to the desert aquifers under the basin. They found that as water moved through irrigated fields, the water gathered dissolved carbon and moved it deep underground. Image credit: Yan Li.

Desert Aquifers Could Hold More Carbon Dioxide than All Earth’s Plants

Jul 29, 2015 by News Staff

According to a new study published online in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, massive aquifers underneath deserts contain approximately one trillion...

Schematic illustration of Earth's magnetic field. Image credit: Peter Reid / University of Edinburgh.

Earth’s Core Region beneath Southern Africa May Be Trigger for Magnetic Pole Reversals

Jul 29, 2015 by News Staff

A group of scientists – led by Dr John Tarduno from the University of Rochester, NY – has recovered a magnetic field record from minerals for Iron...

Unwrapped texture image of the Ein Gedi scroll, showing letters of the Hebrew alphabet. Image credit: Seth Parker / University of Kentucky.

Scientists Decipher 1,500-Year-Old Hebrew Scroll

Jul 22, 2015 by News Staff

A burned 1,500-year-old scroll found at Ein Gedi, on the western shore of the Dead Sea, has been read using advanced digital imaging. Unwrapped texture...

Native South Americans in Brazil by Giulio Ferrario, 1823-1838.

Amazonian Native Americans Share Genetic Link with Australasians, Study Shows

Jul 22, 2015 by News Staff

A new study, published in the journal Nature, shows that some Amazonian Native Americans descend partly from a Native American population that carried...

The new study shows that ancestors of Native Americans migrated to the Americas from Siberia and not directly from Europe. Painting by G. Mülzel.

Single Migration from Siberia Peopled the Americas, Scientists Say

Jul 21, 2015 by News Staff

Using ancient and modern genome-wide data, a team of researchers has found that the ancestors of all present-day Native Americans, including Athabascans...

The Southern Ocean’s clouds can cool the Earth by reflecting sunlight that would otherwise be absorbed by the darker ocean below, and phytoplankton help with that. Image credit: NASA.

Phytoplankton Play Significant Role in Generating Brighter Clouds over Southern Ocean

Jul 20, 2015 by News Staff

A study of clouds over the Southern Ocean reveals how tiny natural particles given off by marine phytoplankton nearly double cloud droplet numbers in the...

A 3D structure of hexagonal boron nitride sheets and boron nitride nanotubes could be a tunable material to control heat in gadgets. Image credit: Rouzbeh Shahsavari / Navid Sakhavand / Rice University.

3D Boron Nitride Could Help Keep Gadgets Cool

Jul 16, 2015 by News Staff

A team of researchers at Rice University has completed the first analysis of how 3D boron nitride might be used as a tunable material to control heat flow...

A 3D relief map of the volcanic cluster on the sea floor. The sea floor is represented by a dark blue color and there are four calderas rising out of the sea floor in shades of green, yellow, orange and red. Image credit: University of New South Wales.

Ancient Underwater Volcanoes Discovered off Australia

Jul 14, 2015 by News Staff

A team of researchers aboard an ocean-going research vessel called RV Investigator has discovered a cluster of 50-million-year-old volcanoes off the coast...

Monkey experiment: primates were seated in separate rooms, each facing a computer monitor showing the virtual avatar arm from a first person perspective. Image credit: Arjun Ramakrishnan et al.

Neuroscientists Successfully Demonstrate Rat and Monkey ‘Brainets’

Jul 9, 2015 by News Staff

A team of neuroscientists at Duke University published two separate studies today, one involving rats and the other involving rhesus macaque monkeys, that...

Taxis in New York City. Image credit: Prayitno Hadinata / CC BY 2.0.

Robotic Taxis Could Help Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Scientists Say

Jul 7, 2015 by News Staff

According to a new study published in the journal Nature Climate Change, per-mile greenhouse gas emissions of an electric vehicle deployed as an autonomous...

Rats show regret too. Image credit: Duke University.

Rats ‘Dream’ about Future, New Study Finds

Jun 29, 2015 by News Staff

According to a new study published in the journal eLife, when rats (Rattus rattus) sleep or rest, their brains simulate journeys to a desired goal. Rats...

Helheim Glacier. Image credit: Nick Selmes / Swansea University.

Scientists Determine What Causes Glacial Earthquakes

Jun 26, 2015 by News Staff

A group of geoscientists led by Dr Tavi Murray of Swansea University, UK, has shown that during the glacier edge breaking process, known as calving, the...

Inside the head of the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans, an antenna-like structure at the tip of the AFD neuron (green) is the sensor for Earth’s magnetic field. Image credit: Andrés Vidal-Gadea.

Scientists Discover First Magnetosensitive Neuron in Animal

Jun 18, 2015 by News Staff

A group of scientists, led by Dr Jon Pierce-Shimomura of the University of Texas at Austin, has identified a magnetosensitive neuron in the brain of Caenorhabditis...

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