1+ hour, 51+ min ago  (510+ words) In a "triple win" for green research, scientists at the University of Cambridge have developed a new sunlight-activated reactor that uses one waste stream to tackle another " all while producing clean hydrogen, and promising to be profitable at commercial scale....

1+ hour, 22+ min ago  (570+ words) Sometimes, the most important paleontological discoveries may come from the most disgusting materials. Finding the bones compactly clustered was "so far really new and unique. I was really surprised to see this," the co-author of the study, Arnaud Rebillard at…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago  (323+ words) When escaped domestic pigs bred with wild boar after the Fukushima evacuation, researchers gained a rare chance to observe large-scale hybridization. New findings show that maternally inherited rapid breeding accelerated genetic turnover, quickly diluting pig ancestry in the wild population....

1+ week, 6+ day ago  (272+ words) For decades, scientists have assumed the human chin must serve some adaptive purpose. After all, no other primate developed the forward-projecting lower jaw that defines Homo sapiens. That anatomical exclusivity has made the chin one of the most distinctive traits…...

3+ mon, 2+ week ago  (370+ words) Your next favorite true crime podcast might have some new forensics jargon to make sense of. Researchers in Australia have developed a new way to identify humans " similar to how we do with DNA and dental records " that could come…...

3+ mon, 4+ week ago  (252+ words) For the first time ever, a unique cooperative hunting arrangement between dolphins and orcas has been documented. Researchers believe killer whales find salmon by tailing dolphins, who in turn benefit from bite-sized fish pieces. Now, a team of international researchers…...

3+ mon, 3+ week ago  (819+ words) A nuclear production facility in Washington state, called the Hanford site, once forged the plutonium that reshaped the world. Now it's forging glass; a quiet act of undoing at one of Earth's most contaminated sites. During World War II and…...

4+ mon, 2+ day ago  (645+ words) Bumblebees have a way of looking both adorable and slightly overserved, wobbling from flower to flower like fuzzy little potatoes. They seem simple, almost carefree. But a new study suggests there's far more happening beneath those tiny wings than meets…...

4+ mon, 45+ min ago  (495+ words) Most pet dogs carry a little wolf inside them; tiny snippets of wolf DNA that slipped into dog genomes after domestication. A new study, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, has found that almost two-thirds of dog…...

3+ mon, 3+ week ago  (373+ words) Sending a rover into space to explore other celestial bodies comes with a dizzying array of challenges, and one of the most complex is ensuring the vehicle doesn't break down out there. To largely mitigate that, a team of aerospace…...