Tag Archives: Discovery

Why didn’t the universe annihilate itself moments after the big bang? A new finding at Cern on the French-Swiss border brings us closer to answering this fundamental question about why matter dominates over its opposite – antimatter. Much of what we see in everyday life is made up of matter. But antimatter exists in much smaller quantities. Matter and antimatter …

A remarkable 2.35 billion year old meteorite found in Africa in 2023 has opened a new window into the Moon‘s volcanic history, filling a gap in our understanding of how Earth’s closest neighbour evolved over billions of years. The meteorite, officially named Northwest Africa 16286 (gets award for catchiest meteorite name!) represents the youngest basaltic lunar meteorite ever discovered on …

These complex, looping tracks pressed into ancient seafloor mud look much more like doodles made by a child with a stick than fossils of animal movement. However, new measurements have shown those squiggles were, in fact, purposeful movements along paths made by primitive animals navigating their world almost 550 million years ago, well before textbooks say complex life “took off” …

A dusty envelope misplaced in a government archive has rewritten a chapter of mineral history. That 1949 letter, discovered during a 2023 digitization project in Bavaria, pointed curators toward a shoebox of lemon‑yellow fragments that had sat unnoticed for decades.  Roland Eichhorn of the Bavarian State Office for the Environment (LfU) led the modern hunt that followed, and his team …

An image depicting the optogenetic screening process (Image source: AI-generated image) In a major breakthrough, researchers have identified a new class of broad-spectrum antiviral compounds that work by amplifying a cell’s own natural defenses, showing effectiveness against viruses like Zika, herpes, and RSV. A team of researchers just discovered compounds that could lead to a new generation of antiviral drugs …

Yellowstone National Park has announced the discovery of a new thermal feature — a 13-foot baby blue hot spring in the Norris Geyser Basin. In a Monday announcement, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) reports the new pool emerged sometime around Christmas and was first spotted in April. The feature doesn’t have a name (and probably won’t), but it’s an exciting new addition …

Greenland’s ice-covered landscape looks like an immovable block on satellite maps. Yet the story locked beneath its center suggests a very different past, one that places future coastal cities in a tight spot. During the Pleistocene – the geologic chapter that began about 2.7 million years ago and ran through innumerable swings between cold and mild – the island’s ice waxed and …

Stanford scientists ‘totally surprised’ by potential Parkinson’s treatment discovery  AOL.comView Full Coverage on Google News Source link

Groundbreaking new autism research suggests that already-rising diagnoses could jump more significantly in the coming years if a new framework for understanding the condition comes into play. The latest research out of Princeton University and the Simons Foundation uncovered four unique subtypes of autism, each with its own genetic ‘fingerprint’ – finally explaining why some children show signs early while …

In a remarkable discovery on the cliffs of Durlston Bay near Swanage, Dorset, a new species of prehistoric mammal has been unearthed, offering fresh insights into the diversity of early mammals that coexisted with dinosaurs. The fossilized remains, dating back approximately 145 million years to the Berriasian age of the Cretaceous period, were found by Benjamin Weston, an undergraduate paleontology …