A team of Canadian physicists has developed a new way to improve our knowledge of the Big Bang by measuring radiation from its afterglow, called the cosmic microwave background radiation. The team’s results, published in the journal Foundations of Physics, predict the
Read MoreMercury's crust is thinner than anyone thought, new mathematical calculations reveal Summary: A planetary scientist has used careful mathematical calculations to determine the density of Mercury's crust, which is thinner than anyone thought. Mercury is small, fast and close to
Read MoreSome scientific studies have the tendency to be, well, a little dry. (We should know—we read thousands of them every year!) But when it comes to sex research, there’s rarely a dull moment. So we combed through our arsenal of
Read MoreWater is everywhere on our planet. If it's not crashing against the shore, it's pounding on the roof, or dripping from the faucet, or pooling right in that spot where you just stepped. But how did all that water get
Read MoreA new report suggests that Zika virus has been sexually transmitted between two people in Texas. If confirmed, this will be the first evidence of the virus being spread through sexual contact in the US, and only the second such
Read MoreOur senses serve the purpose of relaying information about our environment back to the brain, where it is deconstructed, made sense of and then acted upon. Some of this information may actually bypass our conscious awareness and have the ability
Read MoreA rapidly expanding ring of ultracold atoms mimics the physics just after the Big Bang A DIY universe mimics the physics of the infant cosmos, a team of physicists reports. The researchers hope to use their homemade cosmic analog to
Read MoreWater is an essential ingredient for life as we know it, making up more than half of the adult human body and up to 90 percent of some other living things. But scientists trying to examine tiny biological samples with
Read MoreMajor mental illnesses such as schizophrenia, severe depression and bipolar disorder share a common genetic link. Studies of specific families with a history of these types of illnesses have revealed that affected family members share a mutation in the gene
Read MoreFirst stable nucleophilic aluminium(I) compound offers new way to make aluminium–carbon bonds The first stable anionic aluminium compound in the +1 oxidation state demonstrates that received wisdom isn’t always right: unlike all other electrophilic aluminium compounds, this unusual molecule is a nucleophile.
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