Can diamond generate electricity? For a century physics said no. It can — but only the flawed kind. The perfect crystal still produces nothing at all.
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Hidden Earthquakes in Antarctica: Why Nobody Heard Them
Scientists found 362 hidden earthquakes in Antarctica that no catalogue had. They were never quiet — the world was simply listening on the wrong frequency.
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Mars Heat Anomaly: The Cold Planet Is Still Hot Inside
A Mars heat anomaly buried in decades-old gravity data shows the planet’s southern interior is 200 to 400C hotter than the north, and still partly molten.
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They Never Sowed It: A Wildflower Meadow Without Seeding
A Norfolk field became a wildflower meadow without seeding. Eleven years, no planting, orchids too many to count — and nobody can explain how they arrived.
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How Childhood Stress Changes the Brain, Long After It Ends
How childhood stress changes the brain: a new study found it loosens DNA packaging in mice, and blocking one enzyme afterward kept them steady for life.
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A Tiny Big Bang, Made From the Smallest Nuclei Yet
Physicists made a tiny Big Bang from two of the smallest nuclei yet, and the debris still carried the shape of what made it. Here is what the finding means.
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What Holds a Proton Together May Not Be Its Parts
For fifty years the textbook answer to what holds a proton together was three quarks. New collider data points somewhere stranger: the junction between them.
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Stellar Stream Reveals Dark Matter in a Distant Galaxy
Astronomers found a stellar stream tracing dark matter in a galaxy 115 million light-years away — and the clue had been sitting in old Hubble data all along.
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Anglo-Saxon Sand Silhouettes: The Graves With No Bodies
Anglo-Saxon sand silhouettes found at a Suffolk dig preserved people whose bones had dissolved completely. Here is what the empty outlines really show.
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Gut Bacteria and Muscle Strength: What the 29% Finding Means
A study in Gut linked gut bacteria and muscle strength: older adults with one microbe had 29% stronger grip. Here is what it proves, and what it doesn’t.