New research may have people heading to their backyard instead of the store at the outset of this year’s mosquito season.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Did woolly mammoths overlap with first humans in what is now New England?
Woolly mammoths may have walked the landscape at the same time as the earliest humans in what is now New England, according to a new study. Through the radiocarbon dating of a rib fragment from the Mount Holly mammoth from Mount Holly, Vt., the researc…
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Origin of life: The chicken-and-egg problem
New research shows that slight alterations in transfer-RNA molecules (tRNAs) allow them to self-assemble into a functional unit that can replicate information exponentially. tRNAs are key elements in the evolution of early life-forms.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Microbes deep beneath seafloor survive on byproducts of radioactive process
Researchers found that microbes living in ancient sediment below the seafloor are sustained primarily by chemicals created by the natural irradiation of water molecules. Results of this research may have implications for life on Mars.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Did teenage ‘tyrants’ outcompete other dinosaurs?
Paleo-ecologists have demonstrated that the offspring of enormous carnivorous dinosaurs, such as Tyrannosaurus rex may have fundamentally re-shaped their communities by out-competing smaller rival species.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Comet makes a pit stop near Jupiter’s asteroids
After traveling several billion miles toward the Sun, a wayward young comet-like object orbiting among the giant planets has found a temporary parking place along the way. The object has settled near a family of captured ancient asteroids, called Troja…
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Gulf Stream System at its weakest in over a millennium
Never before in over 1000 years the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC), also known as Gulf Stream System, has been as weak as in the last decades. Researchers compiled proxy data, reaching back hundreds of years to reconstruct the AMOC …
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Apollo rock samples capture key moments in the Moon’s early history
Volcanic rock samples collected during NASA’s Apollo missions bear the isotopic signature of key events in the early evolution of the Moon, a new analysis found. Those events include the formation of the Moon’s iron core, as well as the crystallization…
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Record-high Arctic freshwater will flow to Labrador Sea, affecting local and global oceans
The Arctic Ocean’s Beaufort Sea has increased its freshwater content by 40 percent over the past two decades. When conditions change this freshwater will travel to the Labrador Sea off Canada, rather than through the wider marine passageways that conne…
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: New study suggests supermassive black holes could form from dark matter
A new theoretical study has proposed a novel mechanism for the creation of supermassive black holes from dark matter. The international team find that rather than the conventional formation scenarios involving ‘normal’ matter, supermassive black holes …
