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Astronomers have long debated what kind of chemistry might serve as a bona fide alien biosignature. With the launch of the James Webb Space Telescope, those ideas may be put to the test.
By Elise Cutts in Knowable
September 11, 2023
In experiments involving bouncy balls, plastic bottles and a high-speed camera, researchers in Chile discovered that it’s possible to control the height of a container’s bounce by swirling the water inside.
By Elise Cutts in Scientific American
September 1, 2023
A new look at lenticular galaxies suggests a tweak to galaxy evolution theory
By Elise Cutts in Science News
August 8, 2023
Freeze-dried, salted, or buried in a bog: Thousands of years before humans intentionally mummified their dead, nature took care of it for them..
By Elise Cutts in National Geographic
August 7, 2023
The discovery hints that auroras on all planets except Neptune have a common explanationr
By Elise Cutts in Science News
July 18, 2023
By treating molecules as geometric tessellations, scientists devised a new way to forecast how 2D materials might self-assemble.
By Elise Cutts in Quanta
June 21, 2023
Physicists finally understand why heating a supercold quantum fluid freezes it into a solid
By Elise Cutts in Scientific American
June 20, 2023
Human activity and natural forces can cause parts of the Earth’s surface to sink. These cities are facing a double whammy: sinking land and rising seas.
By Elise Cutts in National Geographic
June 15, 2023
Rather than a straightforward march, evolving to be big sometimes involved getting smaller
By Elise Cutts in Science News
May 11, 2023
Bacteria with artificial hydrogel skeletons could be used as tiny robots
By Elise Cutts in Scientific American
May 1, 2023
Smoke aerosols from large wildfires are the perfect reaction surface for chlorine chemicals, speeding their transformation from ozone-friendly forms to reactive ones.
By Elise Cutts in Eos
April 12, 2023
The strange phenomenon of quantum tunneling has been observed in a chemical reaction that defies classical physics
By Elise Cutts in Scientific American
April 3, 2023