Researchers suspect that ancient male frogs pushed females underwater while trying to mount them. (Image credit: Shutterstock) (opens in new tab)It was a cold case with hundreds of victims. For deca… [+5348 chars]
A team of astronomers have discovered a mysterious short-duration astronomical event, or transient, that is as bright as a superluminous supernova, but evolving much faster, reports a study in The As… [+5140 chars]
THUNDER BAY — Twenty-three years ago, Colette Lepage graduated from Lakehead University with a degree in chemical engineering. This week she was reflecting on how what she learned at Lakehead helped… [+3268 chars]
Diamantinasaurus matildae AODF 2298 (AODL 127) tooth (possibly from the same individual as AODF 836). (ao) Right upper tooth in mesial (a,b), mesiolabial (c), labial (d), distolabial (e,f), distal (g… [+3096 chars]
Look southeast Friday night to catch the moon commencing its monthly tour with a brief visit to Saturn! At approximately 11 p.m. local time on July 15, the waning gibbous moon will shine about a pa… [+2207 chars]
Polyploidy or whole-genome duplication (WGD) provides extra substrates for genomic evolution and is thus considered as an important driving force for genetic diversity, trait innovation, and ecologic… [+2851 chars]
An international team of astronomers has conducted an astrometric and photometric wide-field study of the open cluster Messier 37. As a result, the researchers completed a comprehensive catalog of mo… [+3844 chars]
Using supercomputer calculations, scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics in Potsdam and from Japan show a consistent picture for the first time: They modeled the complete pr… [+5495 chars]
Quantized vortices play a pivotal role in the interpretation of quantum phase transitions and strongly correlated physics involving the underlying confluence of superfluids, Bose-Einstein condensates… [+2793 chars]
Some of the most infamous drivers of cancer are mutations in RAS genes, which lead to tumor growth in about a quarter of all cancer patients. Scientists at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard and … [+6581 chars]
As one of the largest-volume industrial chemical processes today, hydroformylation converts olefins, H2 and CO into aldehydes and related products more than 10 million tons annually. Although Au exh… [+2366 chars]
Atomic rearrangement changes a material's physical and chemical properties, which may lead to potential applications across disciplines, including in sustainable energy. With two decades of focused a… [+4418 chars]
