Study: Giant particle accelerator in the sky
The Earth's magnetic field is trapping high energy particles. When the first satellites were launched into space, scientists led by James Van Allen unexpectedly discovered the high energy particle radiation regions, which were later...
Study: Protein ‘chameleon’ colors long-term memory
A chameleonlike protein in neurons can change its mind, and in the process change our brains.
Scientists at Rice University and the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) uncovered new clues in...
Study: California’s creek fire creates its own pyrocumulonimbus cloud
On Friday September 4, 2020 at about 6:44 PM PDT the Creek Fire began in the Big Creek drainage area between Shaver Lake, Big Creek and Huntington Lake, Calif. NASA's Suomi NPP satellite captured...
Study: Aboriginal scars from frontier wars
Hundreds of Aboriginal men who became native mounted police in colonial Australia carried a significant burden of responsibility for law and order for white settlers in Queensland and other settlements.
A long-running ARC-funded archaeology project...
Study: Micro- and nanoplastics detectable in human tissues
Plastic pollution of land, water and air is a global problem. Even when plastic bags or water bottles break down to the point at which they are no longer an eyesore, tiny fragments can...
Research estimates the odds of life and intelligence emerging beyond our planet
Humans have been wondering whether we alone in the universe since antiquity.
We know from the geological record that life started relatively quickly, as soon our planet's environment was stable enough to support it. We...
Study: Telehealth solutions in home dementia care
Telehealth delivery of dementia care in the home can be as effective as face-to-face home visit services if carers and recipients take advantage of the technologies available, Australian researchers say.
The study of 63 people...
Study: Why writing by hand makes kids smarter
Professor Audrey van der Meer at NTNU believes that national guidelines should be put into place to ensure that children receive at least a minimum of handwriting training.
Results from several studies have shown that...
Major new paleoclimatology research shows global warming has upended 6,500 years of cooling
Over the past 150 years, global warming has more than undone the global cooling that occurred over the past six millennia, according to a major study published June 30 in Nature Research's Scientific Data,...
Study describes method to disinfect badly needed respirators
Vaporized hydrogen peroxide can disinfect respirator masks used by health care workers treating patients infected with COVID-19 virus, according to preliminary findings by Yale researchers.
Although researchers did not test for its ability to disinfect...