How will materials behave under certain conditions? And how to make materials more robust? These two questions are crucial to design advanced materials for structural and functional components and applications. A close look at the underlying atomic structures…

Two viewpoints on data from a distant world.

<p>This week we're travelling back in time 66 million years ago with producer William Ray, to a time when dinosaurs roamed. Join William as he meets two <em>Tyrannosaurus rex </em>fossils at the Auckland Museum and uncovers the story behind the bones.</p>

Examination of available evidence on whether anthropogenic global warming was preceded by a long-term warming trend or by global cooling provides support for a relatively mild millennial-scale global thermal maximum during the mid-Holocene.

Analysis of Triton, a high-resolution dataset documenting the macroperforate planktonic foraminifera fossil record, reveals a global climate-linked equatorward shift of ecological and morphological community equitability over the past 8 million years.

Spectra taken after the kilonova associated with GW170817 show a high degree of spherical symmetry and a line shape is found that is consistent with a completely spherical expansion to within a few per cent.

A team of 45 virologists, evolutionary biologists, bioinformaticians, and structural biologists from around the world arrived at a consensus on virus classification methodologies and presented an integrated taxonomical framework for the systematics and taxono…

Large-Scale Fossil Study Reveals Origins of Modern-Day Biodiversity Gradient 15 Million Years Ago Today, species richness peaks in equatorial regions but until now there has been no clear explanation for this. By analyzing fossil records, researchers found th…

Evidence in Earth’s natural archives, from tree rings to seafloor sediments, points to one trend. Some climate models suggest another. Here’s why are important.

Researchers have produced new evidence of how graphene, when twisted to a precise angle, can become a superconductor, moving electricity with no loss of energy.

When neutron stars collide they produce an explosion that is, contrary to what was believed until recently, shaped like a perfect sphere. Although how this is possible is still a mystery, the discovery may provide a new key to fundamental physics and to measu…

Following International Day of Women and Girls in Science, pioneering space pilot Susan Kilrain has urged the importance of equal opportunities for women.<br /><br />

The largest pan-European radio-frequency telescope offers a unique eye for exploring the far reaches of the universe. #SmartRegions

In a recent study published in Nature Astronomy, an international team of researchers led by NASA and The George Washington University examined data from an October 2020 detection of what’s known as a “large spin-down glitch event”, also known as an “anti-gli…

Tenacity has taken a roadblock and turned it into a possible route to the development of quantum computing.

Rare meteorite that crashed in India may reveal secrets of other planets

The mysterious Planet Nine may have up to 20 moons that could be superheated by the hypothetical planet's gravitational pull, making them easy to spot.

Materials scientists at Cornell have developed a method for better understanding the complex electrochemical reactions that occur at the interface of water and metal surfaces – an approach that will ultimately lead to better fuel cells and other electrochemic…

Using NASA's Swift spacecraft and ESA's XMM-Newton satellite, astronomers have observed NGC 5907 ULX1—the most luminous ultra-luminous X-ray pulsar known to date. Results of the observational campaign, published February 7 on the pre-print server arXiv, shed …

An analytical framework linking network architecture, neuronal nonlinearity and population activity offers a guide map to infer the hidden input architecture to neural trios from observed interactions in empirical data.

The earliest larynx discovered in fossil dinosaurs indicates that non-avian dinosaurs may have had bird-like vocalization.

Scientific Reports - Digestive enzymes and sphingomyelinase D in spiders without venom (Uloboridae)

Basic research is needed to feed innovation pipeline, Australian inquiry told

Through an analysis of planets of the same systems, researchers have discovered that there are four planetary system architectures.

The study, published in the journal Nature Communications, noted that melting ice sheets are potentially the largest contributor to sea level change, and historically the hardest to predict because the physics governing their behaviour is notoriously complex.