Parts of the human genome now available to study for the first time are important for understanding genetic diseases, human diversity, and evolution. The first…
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Compelling Sign of Alien Life: Methane Could Be the First Detectable Indication of Life Beyond Earth
Methane in a planet’s atmosphere may be a sign of life if nonbiological sources can be ruled out. This illustration summarizes the known abiotic sources…
Study provides new perspective on Washington state’s Channeled Scablands, carved by the Missoula megafloods at the end of the last ice age. As ice sheets…
In the late stages of binary neutron star formation, the giant star expands and engulfs the neutron star companion in a stage referred to as…
A team of UC scientists reconstituted the circadian clock of cyanobacteria in a test tube, enabling them to study the molecular interactions of the clock…
The first 3D-printed stellar nurseries are highly polished spheres about the size of a baseball, in which swirling clumps and filaments represent star-forming clouds of…
Multi-wavelength observations of the Ophiuchus star-forming region reveal interactions between clouds of star-forming gas and radionuclides produced in a nearby cluster of young stars. The…
The striped shore crab (Pachygrapsus crassipes) is a small crab found all along the West Coast of North America, and it is extremely abundant in…
During pelagic red crab stranding events — like this one documented at a beach in Pacific Grove, California — the small red crustaceans wash ashore…
Free of toxic and hallucinogenic side effects, ibogaine-inspired tabernanthalog shows promise as a potential treatment for the detrimental effects of stress on the brain. A…
The early atmospheres of rocky planets are thought to form mostly from gases released from the surface of the planet as a result of the…
By varying the initial inventory of volatile elements in a model of the geochemical evolution of rocky planets, researchers obtained a wide range of outcomes,…
A new study published in Elementa by researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz and NOAA examines traditional aspects of seafood sustainability alongside greenhouse gas emissions…
A Hesperapis regularis bee visits a flower of Clarkia cylindrica at Pinnacles National Park. Credit: Tania Jogesh Study of flowers with two types of anthers…
Direct Visualization of Quantum Dots Reveals Shape of Quantum Wave Function of the Trapped Electrons
Direct Visualization of Quantum Dots Reveals Shape of Quantum Wave Function of the Trapped Electrons
Visualization of quantum dots in bilayer graphene using scanning tunneling microscopy and spectroscopy reveals a three-fold symmetry. In this three-dimensional image, the peaks represent sites…
Past and future trends in global mean temperature spanning the last 67 million years. Oxygen isotope values in deep-sea benthic foraminifera from sediment cores are…
Computer simulation of the disruption of a star by a black hole shows the formation of an eccentric accretion disk of stellar material spiraling into…
One additional year in the ocean makes a big difference in the size of salmon, as seen in these two female sockeye salmon from Pick…
A new theory explains how black holes grow as a function of galaxy mass and eventually quench star formation in their host galaxies. The images…
The X chromosome is the first human chromosome to be completely sequenced from end to end, with no gaps in the sequence and an unprecedented…