News
- Life
Unhelpful adaptations can speed up evolution
Unhelpful changes in gene activity stimulate natural selection.
- Materials Science
Nanogenerators harvest body’s energy to power devices
Nanogenerators offer body-harvested energy to fuel bionic future
- Astronomy
Nearby quasar may be home to dynamic duo
A pair of black holes left over from a galaxy collision might live in the nearest quasar to Earth.
- Earth
Volcanic activity convicted in Permian extinction
Precision dating confirms that Siberian volcanic eruptions could have triggered the Permian extinction.
- Quantum Physics
New experiment verifies quantum spookiness
A new experiment provides the most robust proof that quantum mechanics doesn’t follow the rules we take for granted in everyday life.
- Animals
Decoy switches frogs’ mating call preference
A female túngara frog may switch her choice between two prospective mates when presented with a third, least attractive option.
- Health & Medicine
Vaccinated man excretes live poliovirus for nearly 3 decades
For almost 30 years, a man with an immune deficiency has been shedding poliovirus strains that have evolved from the version he received in a vaccine.
- Psychology
Psychology results evaporate upon further review
Less than half of psychology findings get reproduced on second tries, a study finds.
- Physics
Hawking proposes solution to black hole problem
Light sliding along the boundary of a black hole encodes everything that ever fell inside, suggests Stephen Hawking in a new but incomplete proposal.
- Health & Medicine
Blood test can predict breast cancer relapse
Blood tests for breast cancer DNA can predict relapse.
- Animals
Twin pandas look forward to growth spurts
The surviving panda twin born at the National Zoo last weekend will undergo DNA tests to discover paternity.
- Climate
Hurricane’s tiny earthquakes could help forecasters
Hurricane Sandy set off small earthquakes under its eye as it moved up the U.S. East Coast in 2012. The tiny tremors could help researchers track the behavior of future storms, researchers propose.
