Credit: The Aquarius simulation, the Virgo Consortium/Dr Mark Lovell The Milky Way could have many more satellite galaxies than scientists have previously been able to predict or observe, according to…
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Children’s social care involvement common to nearly third of UK mothers who died during perinatal period: Study
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain The involvement of children’s social care services was a common factor in nearly a third of UK maternal deaths occurring during, or within a year of,…
Familiar Faces and Fights: What Monkeys Like to Watch Most
Summary: A new study reveals that long-tailed macaques, like humans, are most captivated by videos featuring social conflict and familiar group members. Researchers showed the macaques videos of monkeys engaged…
Crystalline arrowhead among new discoveries at Hedkammen
Archaeologists from Arkeologerna have uncovered a crystalline arrowhead crafted from quartzite during excavations south of Skellefteå in northern Sweden. The discovery was made during a study of the Hedkammen ridge,…
An underground tech surfaces as a serious clean energy contender
Fervo Energy’s Cape Station enhanced geothermal site located near Milford, Utah. Credit: Fervo Energy A once-overlooked technology that taps into the Earth’s heat to generate electricity could supply up to…
Greenland sled dog DNA is a window into the Arctic’s archaeological past
A millennium-long story about Greenland is written in the genes of the island’s sled dogs. A new genomic analysis, published July 10 in Science, suggests that humans (and their sled dogs)…
Wristband sensor provides all-in-one monitoring for diabetes and cardiovascular care
The wristband consists of a microneedle array worn on top of the wrist to measure glucose, alcohol and lactate levels in the interstitial fluid under the skin. Credit: An-Yi Chang…
Adding up Feynman diagrams to make predictions about real materials
Illustration of a polaron in a crystal: the central bright sphere is the charge carrier, distorting the surrounding lattice. The wavy lines represent high-order Feynman diagrams for the electron–phonon interaction,…
Modeling shows geothermal and borehole thermal energy storage can reliably heat buildings in extreme cold
Anaktuvuk Pass, Alaska, in winter. Credit: Molly Rettig, NREL New energy storage research from NREL, a U.S. Department of Energy national laboratory, has demonstrated a way to store and reuse…
Carefully tuned laser beam protects quantum spins from noise
Relaxation of alkali-metal spins and light-shift compensation. Credit: Avraham Berrebi et al Researchers have discovered a simple yet powerful way to protect atoms from losing information—a key challenge in developing…
