Why Don't Newborns Have Tears or Sweat? By Marcus Woo A baby's ability to sweat and produce tears develop weeks after birth.
Proton-Size Droplets of Primordial Soup May Be the Tiniest in the Universe By Marcus Woo Researchers may have created the tiniest droplets in the universe, using a soupy mix of ultrahot particles that mimics conditions in the moments after the Big Bang.
Cold, Dark Stars Lurking in the Universe Could Act Like Single Giant Atoms By Marcus Woo Mysterious quantum stars that act like single, monster atoms could form surprisingly quickly.
Could This Slimy Corn 'Fix' One of Earth's Biggest Pollution Problems? By Marcus Woo Nitrogen fixation is a process that plants use to take nitrogen from the air and transform it into a usable form such as ammonia or nitrate.
Why Does the Earth Rotate? By Marcus Woo You can thank the solar system's head-spinning early years for Earth's rotation.
Weird, 570-Million-Year-Old 'Leaf' Fossil Is Actually from an Animal By Marcus Woo No it's not a leaf or a long-lost kingdom of life. It's a funny, leaf-like animal.
Oldest Evidence for Life on Land Unearthed in South Africa By Marcus Woo About 3.22 billion years ago, ancient mats of microbes clung to pebbles in an ancient riverbed.
Weird Paradox Says 2 Losses Equals a Win. And It Could Lead to Fast Quantum Computers. By Marcus Woo Parrondo's paradox takes losing odds and turns them into a win.
Black Holes Could Actually Be Colliding Wormholes By Marcus Woo The echoes of colliding wormholes would look different than the signal from merging black holes.
Dark Matter May Have an Electric Charge By Marcus Woo The mysterious substance may not just interact with other matter through gravity.
Ghostly 'Lightning' Waves Discovered Inside a Nuclear Reactor By Marcus Woo Whistler waves are normally produced in the atmosphere by lightning. They could help protect nuclear fusion reactors from runaway electrons.
Physicists Just Measured One of the Four Fundamental Forces of Nature. Now They're Bummed. By Marcus Woo Physicists are looking for signs of new physics, but the new measurement showed no signs of it.
Wormholes Could Cast Weird Shadows That Could Be Seen by Telescopes By Marcus Woo Wormholes could leave a signature smooshed shadow that future telescopes could detect.
Why Extraterrestrial Life May Be More Unlikely Than Scientists Thought By Marcus Woo One key ingredient for life may be less abundant in our galaxy than scientists thought.
New Theory Explains Mysterious Growth of Metal Strands By Marcus Woo Metal whiskers wreak havoc on electronics, but their origin has remained unknown.
Meteorites Help Reveal How Mars Lost Its Water By Marcus Woo After initial water escaped into space, the rest froze.
Climate Alters Mongolian Past And Present By Marcus Woo Tree-ring data sheds light on climate change's historic and modern impact.
Miniscule Molecules Get a Weigh In By Marcus Woo Physicists at Caltech helped to develop the first machine able to weigh a single molecule.
Sea Urchins Show The Inner Workings of Development By Marcus Woo A decade of research leads to a deeper understanding of how genes interact.
