A materials scientist with a yeast allergy set out to make a yeast-free pizza dough that still rises like a classic Neapolitan pie. Now, in a new paper published March 22 in the journal Physics of F… [+3842 chars]
image: OCT studies without noise. A new method for better detection of eye diseases. Photo: Karol Karnowskiview more Credit: Source IPC PAS/ICTER, Karol Karnowski Worldwide, as many as 285 million… [+6945 chars]
First predicted in Einstein's theory of general relativity, gravitational waves are tiny ripples in spacetime generated by titanic and powerful cosmic events. The great physicist believed that no equ… [+2920 chars]
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Tiny flecks of white dot a section of crumbly rocks along Texas's Brazos River. To a casual observer, the grains may seem like unremarkable bits of sand, but within their oddball shapes lie clues to … [+8057 chars]
Suppose that we could watch twenty generations of whales or sharks adapting to climate change -- measuring how they evolve and how their biology changes as temperatures and carbon dioxide levels rise… [+4069 chars]
Asteroid Ryugu could be a remnant of an extinct comet that spent tens of thousands of years racing through the solar system, new data suggests. Scientists believe it was then vaporised by high tempe… [+6783 chars]
Physicist Dr Melvin Vopson has already published research suggesting that information has mass and that all elementary particles, the smallest known building blocks of the universe, store information… [+1981 chars]
These six cubes show the simulated distribution of galaxies at redshifts 9, 8, 5, 3, 2, and 1, with the corresponding cosmic ages shown. As the universe expands, the density of galaxies within each c… [+9896 chars]
A team of physicists recently discovered a new phase of water ice, after they put ordinary ice under extraordinarily high pressure and melted it before letting it refreeze. The previously unknown pha… [+2957 chars]
Shockingly, an asteroid hit Earth last week. The news in itself is not that shocking as many pebble-sized asteroids get pulled by Earths gravity and burn up in the atmosphere. What was truly surprisi… [+2762 chars]
Every year, when the long, dark Arctic winter begins its retreat, the tundra ecosystem comes to life. "It goes from this kind of stark, dark, icy desert, and then all of a sudden it greens up and yo… [+5207 chars]
