Researchers created a new design for computer memory that could improve performance while also lowering the energy demands of internet and communications technologies, which are expected to consume nearly a third of global electricity.
The best proof to date that Saturn's rings are astonishingly young has been provided by recent research headed by physicist Sascha Kempf at the University of Colorado Boulder.
A portion of a protein that may hold the key to identifying planets on the edge of supporting life has been discovered by a group of Rutgers researchers working to identify the earliest beginnings of metabolism.
More than 35 years after the world’s worst nuclear accident, the dogs of Chernobyl roam among decaying, abandoned buildings in and around the closed plant – somehow still able to find food, breed and survive.
Archaeologists have found the earliest direct evidence for horseback riding – an innovation that would transform history – in 5,000 year old human skeletons in central Europe.
The ocean is one of the largest dynamic carbon sinks in the world and is prone to increased carbon emissions from human activities. There are even proposals to use the ocean to sequester carbon to reduce carbon emissions.
An international team led by Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR), the University of Rostock, and France's Ecole Polytechnique conducted an innovative experiment.