Sharks now roam the open ocean. But for 200 million years, they only lived near the sea floor
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain When you picture a shark, you probably think of a large, powerful predator cruising…
Physicists devise an idea for lasers that shoot beams of neutrinos
Comparison of the SR and ordinary fluorescence decay rates in 86Rb. Credit: Physical Review Letters (2025). DOI: 10.1103/l3c1-yg2l…
Mutations driving evolution are informed by the genome, not random, study suggests
MEMDS experimental setup. Credit: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2025). DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2424538122 A study published in…
Overcrowding kills infant gorillas in Rwanda habitat
Around half of the babies will fall victims to vicious inter-family fights, experts say. Celebrities, politicians and conservationists…
New method tracks gene expression changes to reveal cell fate decisions
The new method, spVelo, incorporates two types of neural networks: a Variational Autoencoder that models gene expression and…
Graphene reveals electrons that behave like frictionless fluid and break textbook rules
Top Left: 3D atomistic model of the graphene device. Bottom Left: Top view of the actual device, as…
Genetic tools identify lost human relatives from fossil records
Predicted phenotypic differences between AMHs, Neanderthals, and Denisovans. Credit: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2025). DOI:…
Photochemistry and climate modeling of Earth-like exoplanets
Examples of potential Earth-like exoplanets. Credit: NASA/Ames/JPL-Caltech What role can the relationship between oxygen (O2) and ozone (O3)…
Study reveals the ‘just right’ population
Credit: npj Urban Sustainability (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s42949-025-00254-4 The long-running debate over the ideal city size has an answer,…
Microalgae are more significant for COâ‚‚ absorption in Southern Ocean than previously thought, study reveals
At the end of the last ice age, algal blooms of the species Phaeocystis absorbed large quantities of…
For the first time, scientists observed the ‘hidden swirls’ that affect the flow of sand, rocks and snow
The glass beads used in the bulldozing experiments and mapped with X-rays. Credit: Andrés Felipe Escobar Rincón What…
Galactic clusters impact star formation – Sciworthy
A diverse array of objects exists in space, ranging in size from tiny dust particles to supermassive black…