Fountains of Diamonds Erupt as Supercontinents Break Up

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August 25, 2023

Geology Fountains of Diamonds Erupt as Supercontinents Break Up Researchers have discovered a pattern where diamonds spew from deep beneath Earth's surface in huge, explosive volcanic eruptions By Stephanie Pappas,LiveScience

Archaeology Ötzi the Iceman Gets a New Look from Genetic Analysis Improved DNA analysis has updated thinking on the skin color, ancestry, and more of the alpine mummy known as Ötzi the Iceman By Freda Kreier,Nature magazine

Space Exploration Chandrayaan-3 Makes Historic Touchdown on the Moon The successful lunar landing of the Chandrayaan-3 mission makes India only the fourth country to achieve the feat By Jatan Mehta

Neuroscience Worm Brains, Decoded like Never Before, Could Shed Light on Our Own Mind One of the most in-depth catalogs of an animal's brain-body connections ever compiled ties neural activity to roundworm behavior By Lauren Leffer

Animals Here's How You Go Birding in the Middle of the Night If you really want to challenging your bird identification skills, try using them at night, when bird calls are less than 100 milliseconds long. By Jacob Job | 11:34

Renewable Energy As Heat Waves Roast Texas, Batteries Keep Power Grid Humming A surge in battery storage is helping Texas beat the heat without additional fossil fuels By Benjamin Storrow,E&E News

Quantum Physics Quantum Physics Can Explain Earth's Weather By treating Earth as a topological insulator—a state of quantum matter—physicists found a powerful explanation for the twisting movements of the planet's air and seas By Katie McCormick,Quanta Magazine

Language What's the World's Oldest Language? Debate rages over which languages can claim to have the earliest origin By Lucy Tu

Health Care Evidence Undermines 'Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria' Claims Fears of "social contagion," used to support anti-transgender legislation, are not supported by science By Timmy Broderick

Animals The Fast, Furious and Brutally Short Life of an African Male Lion From the moment a male lion is born it faces a gauntlet of challenges, ranging from snakebite to infanticide By Alexander Richard Braczkowski,Duan Biggs,Peter Lindsey,The Conversation US

Mathematics Math's 'Hairy Ball Theorem' Has Surprising Implications Here's what the hairiest problem in math can teach us about wind, antennas and nuclear fusion By Jack Murtagh

Quantum Physics Will Scientists Ever Find a Theory of Everything? Physicists are on an ever urgent quest to find a fuller understanding of what makes the cosmos tick, which they call a theory of everything By Sarah Scoles

BRING SCIENCE HOME Make a Paper Fish Swim with Surface Tension Can you make a toy fish that swims along--with physics? Try this high-tension activity and find out! Credit: George Retseck Have you ever wondered how water droplets form on a window on a rainy day, why some bugs can walk on water or why you use soap to wash your hands? All of these things are related to the phenomenon called surface tension. In this activity you will learn how you can use surface tension to make a fish cut from a piece of paper seem to swim around on its own!

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