UMass Amherst researchers win NSF award to help re-envision the growing, selling and buying of coffee. Coffee, that savior of the underslept, comes with enormous…
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Tracks in the sand: One of over 50 footprints of predecessors of early humans identified in 2017 near Trachilos, Crete. Dating techniques have now shown…
We tend to avoid choosing apples with brown spots, assuming that they taste bad. But if we are to end food waste, we’ll need to…
A chimpanzee in Kibale National Park, Uganda. Credit: Daniel J. Field When an asteroid struck 66 million years ago and wiped out dinosaurs not related…
Olive sea snakes are among the largest marine snake species, and are abundant on some coral-reef areas. Credit: Jack Breedon Attacks by venomous Olive sea…
Dedicated circuits evaluate uncertainty in the brain, preventing it from using unreliable information to make decisions. As we interact with the world, we are constantly…
“I think about it every day and dream about it at night. It’s been my whole life for five years now,” says Enrico Amico, a…
Jomon teeth vs Native American teeth. Credit: G. Richard Scott, University of Nevada Reno Latest scientific findings suggest the ancestral Native American population does not…
Researchers have developed a mathematical model that can predict the optimum exercise regime for building muscle. The researchers, from the University of Cambridge, used methods…
A trilobite fossil from the Ordovician period, which lasted from about 485 to 443 million years ago. A new analysis of marine fossils from most…
Two samples of calcium carbonate concrete, one using hardened cement paste (left) and the other using silica sand. Both raw materials are common construction and…
Asst. Prof. Chong Liu’s lab is developing a new type of electrode that can extract valuable elements from seawater using a process called electrochemical intercalation.…
In January, local authorities arrested a 36-year-old man named Aditya Singh after he had spent three months living at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport. Since October,…
The illustration above shows the core features of the Poverty Point site in northern Louisiana. The green to the right is the Mississippi River flood…
Ahead of Columbus Day, findings pose further questions of what the explorer really expected to find on his voyage. New analysis of ancient writings suggests…
$2.5 trillion is spent globally to assess, mitigate and repair corrosion of infrastructure, according to Penn State Assistant Professor Juan Pablo Gevaudan. He is leading…
In a regular icosahedron (purple), six main interior diagonals (red lines) make equal angles with each other. Credit: Image: Zilin Jiang How many lines can…
Tropical forests regularly appear in the news as the front line of climate change and human sustainability challenges. They are some of the most threatened…
Pendraig milnerae was a small species of carnivorous dinosaur, living in what is now southern Wales. Credit: © James Robbins The oldest-known meat-eating dinosaur discovered…