Tag: New research
Our team of physicists inadvertently generated the shortest X-ray pulses ever observed
Uwe Bergmann, University of Wisconsin-Madison and Thomas Linker, Stanford University
X-ray beams aren’t used just by doctors to see...
‘Space tornadoes’ could cause geomagnetic storms – but these phenomena, spun...
Mojtaba Akhavan-Tafti, University of Michigan and Ward B. (Chip) Manchester, University of Michigan
Weather forecasting is a powerful tool....
College students are bombarded by misinformation, so this professor taught them...
Sam Wineburg, Stanford University
Mike Evans knew something had to change.
As the lead instructor for...
The first stars may not have been as uniformly massive as...
Luke Keller, Ithaca College
For decades, astronomers have wondered what the very first stars in the universe were like....
Most air cleaning devices have not been tested on people −...
Amiran Baduashvili, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus and Lisa Bero, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
Portable air...
About a third of pregnant women in the US lack sufficient...
Melissa Melough, University of Delaware
Children whose mothers had higher vitamin D levels during pregnancy scored better on tests...
Examining mushrooms under microscopes can help engineers design stronger materials
Mohamed Khalil Elhachimi, Binghamton University, State University of New York
Pick up a button mushroom from the supermarket and...
Mitochondria can sense bacteria and trigger your immune system to trap...
Andrew Monteith, University of Tennessee
Mitochondria have primarily been known as the energy-producing components of cells. But scientists are...
EXPLORING NATURE
Giant ground sloths’ fossilized teeth reveal their unique roles in the...
Larisa R. G. DeSantis, Vanderbilt University and Aditya Reddy Kurre, University of Pennsylvania
A two-toed sloth at the...
