How Did Plants Survive the Asteroid That Wiped Out the Dinosaurs?
Around 60% of all plant species on Earth died with the nonavian dinosaurs 65 million years ago, when…
Study Warns of “Short Pulses” of Rapid Ice Sheet Retreat In Response to Climate Warming
According to an international study published in Nature, ice sheets can retreat up to 600 m per day…
New Study Finds Link Between Mediterranean Diet and Lower Risk of Dementia
A new study has found that eating a Mediterranean-style diet can help reduce the risk of dementia by…
New Mini-Heart “Organoids” Help Researchers Study Heart Formation and Repair
Researchers at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) have successfully created a “mini-heart” known as an organoid. The…
Researchers Create Embryo-like Structures from Monkey Cells
Researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) have created “blastoids,” or embryo-like structures, using monkey embryonic stem…
What’s Pi Doing Inside the Normal Distribution?
It is no surprise to most of us that the venerated mathematical constant pi is usually related to…
Scouring South Africa For Fossils (Older Than Dinosaurs)
It is not immediately apparent to us as readers of paleontology updates, but these ancient animals are often…
The Math Underneath Competing Species
Say two animals live near each other—is there any math that best describes their predicament when both depend…
A Bike That Runs on Magnets—And No Gears
Engineers sometimes want to do stuff just because they think it’s neat to try. Others would think the…
The World’s Strongest Magnet
Florida’s National High Magnetic Field Laboratory currently houses the world’s strongest magnet laboratory—so strong that even nonmagnetic objects…