Did the Black Death modify the human genome?
The Black Death of 1349 had a profound impact on Europe. According to a recent study, it would have left ...
Tag: Black
The 48-hour cycle of the great black cockchafer
Holotrichia parallela, the large black cockchafer, is an important agricultural pest in Asia. The beetles have an unusual mating strategy, ...
Lightest black hole or heaviest neutron star? MeerKAT discovers a mysterious object in the Milky Way
Artist's impression of the system assuming the massive companion star is a black hole. The brightest background star is its ...
In the emergency room, a white man will be better taken care of than a black woman
In a recently published study, researchers examined whether patients' gender and ethnicity influenced heart attack management decisions in the emergency ...
Astronomers detect oldest black hole ever observed
Black hole mass as a function of redshift (on a logarithmic scale) and age of the Universe. The black hole ...
From the entropy of black holes to the complexity of plant leaves: an intriguing link
Credit: Visualization of a diffuse narrow leaf-environment interface. Credit: Vishnu Muraleedharan, Sajeev C Rajan, Jaishanker R The complexity of biological ...
Astronomers discover direct link between supernovae and the formation of black holes or neutron stars
This artist's impression is based on the aftermath of a supernova explosion observed by two teams of astronomers with ESO's ...
Black holes of unexpected mass dominate small galaxies in the distant universe
Credit: CfA/Melissa Weiss Astronomers have discovered that the supermassive black holes at the centers of early galaxies are much more ...
How black silicon, a prized material used in solar cells, gets its dark, rough side
The fluorine gas etches the surface of the silicon into a series of angular peaks that, when viewed with a ...
New transistors based on single-layer black phosphorus and germanium arsenide
Manufacturing process for vdW coat from BP. a, b, Schematic (a) and optical image (b) of a multilayer BP flake ...
