Earth’s atmosphere is ringing like a bell

Let the atmospheric music play on!

How the Earth’s continents formed more than three billion years ago?

Plate tectonics research rewrites history of Earth's continents

How humans evolved to have distinct large, globular shaped brains?

The human brain: not just large but finely shaped.

The effects of climate change on the delicate food webs of the neotropics

Extreme rainfall events cause top-heavy aquatic food webs.

Engineers use electricity to clean up heavily contaminated wastewater

Powerful electrochemical process eliminates stubborn organic aqueous pollutants.

Scientists determined the beginning and end dates of the Shuram carbon excursion

The story of life on Earth is a tale of beginnings and endings.

New fungal pathogen found in NY apples orchard

In a study of New York state apple orchards, Cornell plant pathologists have identified a new fungal pathogen that belongs to genus Colletotrichum, that causes bitter rot disease in apples.

A novel, genuine, time-dependent topological system

Scientists recently realized a novel genuine time-dependent topological system with ultracold atoms in periodically-driven optical honeycomb lattices.

Earth’s magnetic field changes 10 times faster than previously thought

A new study reveals that changes in the direction of the Earth’s magnetic field may take place 10 times faster than previously thought.

New insights into van der Waals materials found

Layered van der Waals materials are of high interest for electronic and photonic applications, according to researchers at Penn State and SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, in California, who provide new insights into the interactions of layered materials with laser and electron beams.

Scientists observed the branched flow of light for the very first time

A team of researchers from the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology has observed branched flow of light for the very first time.

How much oxygen our brain needs?

Neurobiologists have now succeeded for the first time in directly correlating oxygen consumption with the activity of certain nerve cells.

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