mystery

Scientists crack a 50-year solar mystery with a scorching discovery

New research from the University of St Andrews has proposed that particles in solar flares are 6.5 times hotter than…

7 months ago

Scientists just cracked a 60-million-year-old volcanic mystery

What do the rumblings of Iceland's volcanoes have in common with the now peaceful volcanic islands off Scotland's western coast…

8 months ago

Scientists crack a 60-year-old quantum mystery

Researchers from the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, have created a novel pathway into the study of the elusive…

8 months ago

Great white sharks have a DNA mystery science still can’t explain

White sharks exhibit stark differences between the DNA in their nuclei and the DNA in their mitochondria. Until now, scientists…

8 months ago

Scientists detect virus traces in blood that may unlock long COVID’s mystery

Researchers from the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen), part of City of Hope, and the Lundquist Institute for Biomedical Innovation…

9 months ago

Scientists crack the mystery of brain cell clumps, and make them vanish

Look inside a brain cell with Huntington's disease or ALS and you are likely to find RNA clumped together. These…

9 months ago

Quantum tunneling mystery solved after 100 years—and it involves a surprise collision

Recently, Professor Dong Eon Kim from POSTECH's Department of Physics and Max Planck Korea-POSTECH Initiative and his research team have…

9 months ago

Galactic mystery: Why massive stars struggle to form in the Milky Way’s center

New research led by Dr. James De Buizer at the SETI Institute and Dr. Wanggi Lim at IPAC at Caltech…

11 months ago

Mystery of ‘very odd’ elasmosaur finally solved: fiercely predatory marine reptile is new species

A group of fossils of elasmosaurs -- some of the most famous in North America -- have just been formally…

11 months ago

NASA Solves Black Hole Jet X-ray Mystery with IXPE’s Polarization Powers

The blazar BL Lacertae, a giant black hole with jets, facing the earth, have made scientists curious about how X-rays…

12 months ago