A Working Girl Can't Win
For you she learned to wear a short black slipand red lipstick,how to order a glass of red wineand finish it. She learned to reach…
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Engineers create chameleon-like artificial 'skin' that shifts color on demand
Borrowing a trick from nature, engineers from the University of California at Berkeley have created an incredibly thin, chameleon-…
Underground ocean on Jupiter's largest moon, Ganymede
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has the best evidence yet for an underground saltwater ocean on Ganymede, Jupiter's largest moon. Th…
Some genes 'foreign' in origin and not from our ancestors
Many animals, including humans, acquired essential 'foreign' genes from microorganisms co-habiting their environment in ancient ti…
Welcome to the neighborhood: New dwarf galaxies discovered in orbit around the Milky Way
Astronomers have discovered a 'treasure trove' of rare dwarf satellite galaxies orbiting our own Milky Way. The discoveries could …
Why isn't the universe as bright as it should be?
A handful of new stars are born each year in the Milky Way, while many more blink on across the universe. But astronomers have obs…
Strength in numbers: First-ever quantum device that detects and corrects its own errors
When scientists develop a full quantum computer, the world of computing will undergo a revolution of sophistication, speed and ene…
Mars: The planet that lost an ocean's worth of water
A primitive ocean on Mars held more water than Earths Arctic Ocean, and covered a greater portion of the planets surface than the …
First ever photograph of light as a particle and a wave
Light behaves both as a particle and as a wave. Since the days of Einstein, scientists have been trying to directly observe both o…
Monster black hole discovered at cosmic dawn
Scientists have discovered the brightest quasar in the early universe, powered by the most massive black hole yet known at that ti…
