A Peculiar Case of “Virgin Birth” in Aquarium Sharks
Asexual reproduction is prevalent among animals such as starfish, deep-sea worms, and stick insects, but it is a rarity among vertebrates. Parthenogenesis is a process…
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Decades-Old Mystery Solved? Astronomers May Have Uncovered How Galaxies Change Their Shape
Mysteries Remain About Puzzling Bahamas Whiting Events
Rotating Detonation Rocket Engine: NASA’s Revolutionary Propulsion Design for Deep Space Missions
Important Advance in Quantum Science: Coherent Manipulation of Spin Qubits at Room Temperature
Healthy Plant-Based Diets Could Lower Men’s Risk of Colon Cancer
“Green” Biodegradable Medical Gowns Actually Produce Harmful Greenhouse Gases
Columbia Researchers Uncover Dangerous Connection Between Serotonin and Heart Valve Disease
Transistors Repurposed As Microchip “Clock” To Address Security Concerns and Supply Chain Weakness
New Portable Mosquito Repellent Device Passes U.S. Military Testing
A device developed at the University of Florida for the U.S. military provides protection from mosquitos for an extended period and requires no heat, electricity,…
Modeling Solar Winds: Simulations Reproduce Complex Fluctuations in Soft X-Ray Signal Detected by Satellites
Models capture how solar wind charge exchange events are observed. Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University have used numerical methods to model the variations observed in…
Devastating Consequences: How a Single Oil Spill Can Disrupt the Global Energy Supply
A maritime area three times the size of the city of London holds the highest risk for oil spills in the Gulf which can have…
Ancient Asteroid Provides Insight Into the Evolution of Our Solar System
A large international collaboration utilized the Diamond Light Source, the UK’s national synchrotron facility, to examine grains collected from a near-Earth asteroid in order to…
How Machine Learning Could Predict Rare Disastrous Events – Like Earthquakes or Pandemics
Scientists can use a combination of advanced machine learning and sequential sampling techniques to predict extreme events without the need for large data sets, according…
Startling Findings: Midwest and Southeast Experience Dramatic Increase in Anal Cancer
According to a study recently published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, South Carolina is experiencing one of the most significant increases in anal cancer…
Unlocking the Unimaginable: Revolutionary New Method for Materials Discovery
Researchers have discovered a method for creating new materials for use in batteries, magnets, and microelectronics. The most skilled artists can create a one-of-a-kind…
Why Aren’t All Black Bears Black?
A team of researchers from HudsonAlpha, the University of Memphis, and the University of Pennsylvania have uncovered the underlying cause of the cinnamon-colored coat in…
Galactic Anomaly: The Milky Way Is Too Big for Its “Cosmological Wall”
Milky Way Discovered To Be More Unique Than Previously Thought Is the Milky Way special, or, at least, is it in a special place in…
