30,000-year-old woman’s DNA links ancestry between eastern and western Europe
A woman’s DNA from southwestern France reveals ancestry connections between eastern and western European populations more than 30,000…
Ancient proteins offer new clues to what Denisovans looked like
Ancient proteins identify two fossil fragments from northern China as Denisovan, linking molecular evidence to a substantial fossil…
Scientists can now predict qubit behavior faster and more accurately
A molecular modeling approach identifies boron- and oxygen-containing diamond defects as promising candidates for quantum technologies.The calculations focus…
Study finds no clear definition of social media among public
A survey of 968 UK users found broad agreement on familiar social networks, but disagreement over platforms with…
Laser light reveals the hidden quantum properties of crystals
Two ultrashort laser pulses revealed a difficult-to-measure quantum property in an atomically thin semiconductor.Combining optical measurements with an…
New DNA findings may explain how octopuses evolved complex brains
Octopus, squid and cuttlefish share stable large-scale DNA organization but show much more variable chromatin loops.Ancient chromosome reshuffling…
Lasers reveal a rugby-ball-shaped nucleus inside fermium-255
Precision laser spectroscopy shows that the nucleus of fermium-255 is strongly elongated, resembling a rugby ball rather than…
Earth’s magnetic field took 70,000 years to complete an ancient reversal
North Atlantic sediments record two magnetic reversals lasting approximately 18,000 and 70,000 years, longer than commonly assumed.The findings…
Cosmic gamma rays test the limits of Einstein’s speed of light rule
A reanalysis of cosmic gamma-ray measurements found no evidence of the tested departures from Lorentz invariance.The researchers tightened…
Physicist proposes laser light could transfer energy to a gravitational wave
A theoretical proposal would use laser light to exchange tiny amounts of energy with a passing gravitational wave.Repeated…
Scientists find evidence for several Earth axis shifts during the age of dinosaurs
A new study finds evidence that Earth may have undergone several episodes of rapid true polar wander during…
The eruption that buried Pompeii is helping scientists synchronize Earth’s geological clocks
Scientists used the precisely recorded 79 CE eruption of Mount Vesuvius to recalibrate argon-argon dating, reducing uncertainty for…