Tag: Nature Communications
Renaissance-era letter sealed for centuries just virtually unfolded and read for the first time
More than 600 years ago, someone intricately folded, sealed and posted a letter that was never delivered. Now, scientists have digitally "unfolded"…
Hundreds of skeletons fill this remote Himalayan lake. How did they get there?
High in the Indian Himalayas, a four-to-five-day trek from the nearest village, sits an unassuming glacial lake called Roopkund. The spot is beauti…
Incredibly detailed video shows DNA twisting into weird shapes to squeeze into cells
Scientists recently captured a high-resolution video of DNA shimmying into weird shapes in order to squeeze inside cells.
Towering ice arches in the Arctic are melting, putting ‘Last Ice Area’ at risk of vanishing
The world's thickest and oldest sea ice is at risk of being lost as the towering ice arches holding it in place experience rapid melting, twice as …
Earth’s outer shell ballooned during massive growth spurt 3 billion years ago
Around 3 billion years ago, Earth's crust ballooned during a massive growth spurt, …
Mystery of Greenland’s expanding ‘dark zone’ finally solved
The mystery of a growing "dark zone" on Greenland's melting ice sheet has be…
Soap bubble freezes into an iridescent snow globe in cool new video
A photographer captured mesmerizing footage of a soap bubble freezing over and transforming into a delicate snow globe after temperatures plunged in Winnipeg, Canada. …
635 million-year-old fossil is the oldest known land fungus
The oldest evidence of land fungus may be a wee microfossil that's 635 million years …
Hundreds of animal species could harbor novel coronaviruses
Hundreds of mammal species could serve as incubators for coronaviruses to mix and match with one another, potentially forming new viruses and fueli…