Tiny fossils crack a Cretaceous cold case: Ocean acidification triggered one of the ocean's most severe extinctions

A 113-million-year-old marine murder mystery may finally be solved. Using chemical clues locked inside microscopic fossils, ...
ZME Science

A Quantum Microscope Can Show Us How Neanderthals Tended Their Fires

The last flames kindled by Neanderthals died tens of thousands of years ago. But fire leaves traces behind — not only charcoal and ash, but also tiny magnetic changes locked inside minerals.
Brown University

Growing curiosity: Pre-College students explore regenerative medicine

Led by Brown faculty, high schoolers in an intensive, two-week Summer@Brown course combine cellular biology, 3D printing and ...

Tiny Crab Hid Under Rocks in the South China Sea and Fooled Researchers for Years

Researchers kept walking right past this tiny South China Sea crab, convinced it was a species they already knew. It took a ...
Science X Network

Beneath pale ash, a quantum microscope reveals hidden traces of Neanderthal fire use preserved for millennia

An ancient hearth at El Salt (Spain) is giving up its secrets—not with flames, but with physics. Scientists have already ...
Johns Hopkins Medicine

Endoscopic Submucosal Dissection

If you have a tumor or a lesion within the lining of your gastrointestinal tract, your doctor may recommend removing it with a procedure called endoscopic submucosal dissection. Endoscopic submucosal ...