VLT Discovers the Brightest Distant Galaxy to Date and Signs of Population III Stars
Using ESO’s Very Large Telescope with help from the W. M. Keck Observatory, the Subaru Telescope and the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, a team of…
Researchers Increase Energy-Burning Brown Fat Cells
A team of researchers has discovered a way to increase energy-burning human brown fat cells and to make them more active, a discovery that could…
GRACE Reveals That a Third of Big Groundwater Basins Are in Distress
Using data from NASA’s Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment satellites, two new studies reveal that about one third of Earth’s largest groundwater basins are being…
Study Reveals Ancient Climate of Mars Was Cold and Icy
Using a three-dimensional atmospheric circulation model to compare a water cycle on Mars under different scenarios 3 to 4 billion years ago, researchers at Harvard…
Scientists Propose Possible Mechanism for Saturn’s Polar Cyclones
Atmospheric scientists from MIT have developed a simple model that may predict cyclone activity on other planets. For the last decade, astronomers have observed curious…
Researchers Show How Mechanical Forces Affect Cell Function
New research from Yale University reveals how mechanical forces play an integral part in cell function. Nuclear membranes protect genes — life’s most precious cargo…
Scientists Discover Evidence of Methane in Martian Meteorites
A newly published study details the discovery of methane in Martian meteorites, a possible clue in the search for life on the Red Planet. The…
New Evolution Study Reveals Massive Genome Shift
By applying the latest tools of genome sequencing and analysis to preserved evidence from experiments carried out at Notre Dame in the 1990s, a new…
New Model Helps Explain the Softness in Earth’s Lithosphere
A new model from researchers at Yale University helps explain the drop in elastic stiffness in the middle of the Earth’s continental lithosphere. Lithosphere is…
Pupil Diameter Linked to Task Performance
Researchers from the Yale School of Medicine reveal how changes in the activity of individual neurons during performance of a task correspond exactly to the…
Scientists Discuss the Search for Life in Our Solar System and Beyond
Follow along as researchers discuss the search for evidence of habitability in our solar system and beyond during the 2015 Astrobiology Science Conference. NASA and…
Cassini Image: Tethys ‘Eyes’ Saturn
This newly released image from the Cassini Spacecraft shows two large craters on Saturn’s moon Tethys. The two large craters on Tethys, near the line…
Hubble Views Irregular Blue Compact Dwarf Galaxy UGC 11411
This newly released Hubble image shows irregular blue compact dwarf (BCD) galaxy UGC 11411. BCD galaxies are about a tenth of the size of a…
Engineers Design Printable Centimeter-long Origami Robot
Engineers at MIT have developed a tiny robot that can swim, climb an incline, traverse rough terrain, and carry a load twice its weight while…
New Pluto Images from New Horizons
As NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft speeds closer to the Pluto system new images of Pluto are emerging, giving a better view of Pluto’s surface features….
Helium-Shrouded Planets May Be Common around Other Stars in Our Galaxy
Using data from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope, astronomers propose that helium atmospheres may be found on thousands of warm Neptune- and sub-Neptune-sized exoplanets in our…
Hubble Detects Stratosphere on Distant Planet WASP-33b
Using NASA’s Hubble Telescope, a team of researchers has detected a stratosphere on the planet WASP-33b. A stratosphere occurs when molecules in the atmosphere absorb…
Cryogenic Storage Ring Reproduces the Chemical Conditions of Space
Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics conducted initial experiments in the Cryogenic Storage Ring. The Cryogenic Storage Ring can reproduce the chemical…
