Month: March 2013

Scientists have imitated the skeleton of natural sea sponges to produce a new flexible mineral….

Scientists have shown that changes in coat color in mice are the result not of…

In the swirling canopy of Jupiter’s atmosphere, cloudless patches are so exceptional that the big…

New optical technologies using “metasurfaces” capable of the ultra-efficient control of light are nearing commercialization,…

Brown bears on an Alaskan archipelago are the descendants of an ancient polar bear population…

A new genetic study of polar bears and brown bears upends prevailing ideas about the…

The Earth’s oceanic crust covers an enormous expanse, and is mostly buried beneath a thick…

The ultrafast, ultrabright X-ray pulses of the Linac Coherent Light Source have enabled unprecedented views…

Researchers have identified a key step in the process by which red blood cells are…

Researchers have successfully created a magnetic soliton — a nano-sized, spinning droplet that was first…