When eyeing a predator, horses keep a poker face as their hearts race
image: A handler holds onto a horse while a researcher sets up the projector and videos. The handler will turn her…
NASA’s Picks for Mars Mobility Development Feature Composites Expertise
NASA has selected seven companies for contract awards under the Mars Exploration Program’s Science Transport and Robotic Innovation…
Physicists made a black hole out of light to test Stephen Hawking’s elusive radiation theory
Physicists have coaxed a black hole’s most famous glow out of a strand of optical fiber and, for…
Orange-lipped monkey that roars and snorts deep in Congo rainforest is new species to science
Scientists have identified a new species of monkey that has orange lips and makes unique roars and snorting…
50,000-year-old DNA from South African antelope rewrites limits of ancient DNA preservation
Scientists have recovered ancient DNA from a 50,000-year-old antelope tooth found in South Africa, pushing back the age…
StratX raises $1.19M to tackle landfill methane with living biocovers
StratX, a climatetech company specialising in greenhouse gas reductions from landfills, has raised $1.19 million in a funding…
Raspberry sugar spotted in interstellar space, a sweet discovery that could reveal clues about life’s origins
Is space … sweet? As it turns out, interstellar space has sugar — and it’s the same type…
All-mechanical coherence protection and fast control of a spin qubit
Schuetz, M. et al. Universal quantum transducers based on surface acoustic waves. Phys. Rev. X 5, 031031 (2015).…
A Missing Black Hole Was Found Hiding in a Giant Star Cluster. Astronomers Think There Could Be Thousands More
Astronomers charted a star’s path over 20 years as it circled an invisible object that was rather hefty.…
Britain left a five-acre farm without crops or new seeds; 15 years later, nature had turned it into a wildflower-rich meadow
Abandoned farmland restored to wildflower meadow without sowing seeds A five-acre piece of Norfolk (England county) farmland left…
Wally Funk obituary | Space
As an aviator, Wally Funk, who has died aged 87, was a trailblazing pioneer for women, breaking barriers…
Thermodynamic Computers Go With the (Energy) Flow
But how does lactase get this useful shape? It is encoded into the sequence of amino acids that…