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New melting experiments confirm that diamond floats in metallic liquid carbon at high pressures, much like ice cubes float in a glass of water.
X-rays caught diamond melting near 1 terapascal, settling a 20-year puzzle and pointing toward more efficient fusion implosions.
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Sticky hairs, digestive enzymes, and labeled nitrogen reveal how an alpine flower turns insects into nutrients.
Green Impact150-year-old Darwin mystery solved by a carnivorous alpine flowerRebecca Shavit
Theia remnants inside Earth may survive as two giant mantle blobs left by the collision that created the Moon.
SpaceScientists discover remnants of Theia, the planet that collided with Earth 4.5 billion years agoJoseph Shavit
The St. Mary Magdalene Flood 1342 was part of 16 major European floods that struck within less than two years.
Green ImpactEurope’s catastrophic ‘flood of the millennium’ in 1342 wasn’t a single eventJoshua Shavit
The health risks of mummified remains sold online include fungal growth, toxic preservatives and unsafe shipping practices.
HealthMummy’s curse: Mummified remains sold online may expose the public to hidden risksRebecca Shavit
A new study reveals how pupil dilation reflects brain activity that helps people adjust to surprise, reduce bias, and learn more effectively.
DiscoveriesSurprise helps people learn and think better, brain study findsMac Oliveau
"Triassic Mothers," a life reconstruction of a group of Chiniquodon theotonicus individuals, a pregnant female (left) as well as a female (right) breastfeeding few, relatively large neonates.
DiscoveriesAncient mammal ancestors gave birth to live young, 236-million-year-old fossil findsJoseph Shavit
The brain language network can be mapped from fMRI activity even while people rest or perform tasks unrelated to language.
HealthStanford researchers discover a language-specific network hidden in the human brainJoseph Shavit
JWST detects water around IRS 3, a dying star shedding huge amounts of gas and dust near the Milky Way’s central black hole.
SpaceJWST finds water around a dying star near the Milky Way’s central black holeJoshua Shavit
A JWST black hole star candidate may explain mysterious little red dots and how massive black holes grew in the early universe.
SpaceStrange red object from the early universe could be the first ‘black hole star’Joseph Shavit
Waist size and cardiovascular risk are closely linked, and measuring the midsection may identify dangers that BMI alone misses.
HealthBelly fat predicts heart disease risk better than BMI, study findsJoseph Shavit
Face-on projections of the stacked surface density distribution of stars and gas in the X-Y plane.
SpaceDark matter and star clusters work together to reshape the centers of galaxiesJoseph Shavit
Diana Prado Lopes Aude Craik is an assistant professor in the Department of Physics at ETH Zurich.
DiscoveriesETH Zurich researchers detect a possible fifth force of natureJoseph Shavit
A nationwide study finds that obeying speed limits could save fuel, cut emissions and cost drivers less than a minute per day.
Green ImpactAmericans can save 6.7 million gallons of fuel each day by doing this one small thingShy Cohen
The ALICE experiment at CERN's Large Hadron Collider. CERN data reveal evidence for gluon saturation inside atomic nuclei and challenge a competing nuclear shadowing model.
DiscoveriesTiny structures inside lead nuclei expose a new pattern in gluon behaviorJoshua Shavit
A 245 million-year-old fossil from China reveals how early reptiles adapted to the sea, preserving both skeleton and digestive system.
Discoveries245-million-year-old reptile fossil preserves the oldest known intact digestive systemJoshua Shavit
Gaia star clusters challenge the universal initial mass function used to estimate galaxy mass, star formation and evolution.
SpaceNew Gaia data is challenging a 50-year-old assumption about how stars and galaxies formJoseph Shavit