Short-Lived Light Sources Discovered in the Sky – Vanishing Stars and Failed Supernovas
A project led by an international team of researchers uses publicly available data with images of the sky dating as far back as to the…
A project led by an international team of researchers uses publicly available data with images of the sky dating as far back as to the…
Underground fiber-optic cables, like those that connect the world through phone and internet service, hold untapped potential for monitoring severe weather, according to scientists at…
A new hypothesis may hold the key to solving four medical mysteries associated with the chronic brain disorder. Four unsolved mysteries around schizophrenia have long…
Fossilized seashells show signs of global warming, ocean acidification leading up to asteroid impact. Shells’ chemistry shifted to respond to influx of carbon into the…
Brain imaging of veterans with Gulf War illness show varying abnormalities after moderate exercise that can be categorized into two distinct groups — an outcome…
Boron carbide is used in the design of planes, trains, and cars. University of Seville researchers, led by professor Francisco Luis Cumbrera, together with colleagues…
How Enceladus Got Its Stripes New research reveals the physics governing the fissures through which ocean water erupts from the moon’s icy surface. Saturn’s icy…
Following the accident at the Fukushima nuclear power plant in March 2011, the Japanese authorities decided to carry out major decontamination works in the affected…
An international team co-led by an Oregon State University chemistry researcher has uncovered a better way to scrub carbon dioxide from smokestack emissions, which could…
“Cephalopods were the first intelligent animals on the planet.” This quote from Dr. Sydney Brenner, molecular geneticist and one of the founders of the Okinawa…
Sue Smrekar really wants to go back to Venus. In her office at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, the planetary scientist displays a…
According to a new study led by a team from The University of New Mexico, centuries-old laws about the behavior of gas mixtures do not…
Wetting a Polymer Membrane Improved Its Ability to Capture CO2 Reducing the level of CO2 in the atmosphere will probably require carbon capture. A surprising…
Researchers create accurate model of organ scarring using stem cells in a lab. Advance could help identify drugs to eventually treat fibrosis. Every organ in…
Artificial light influences the behavior of many nocturnal animals such as bats, which are very sensitive to all types of lighting. Particularly critical is the…
NGC 3175 is located around 50 million light-years away in the constellation of Antlia (The Air Pump). The galaxy can be seen slicing across the…
Chemists at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) have discovered a method that could turn plastic waste into valuable chemicals by using sunlight. In lab…
As the climate changes, myriad animal populations are being impacted. In particular, Arctic sea ice is in decline, causing polar bears in the Barents Sea…