Limbless Amphibian Family of Caecilian Order Discovered In India
An entirely new family of limbless amphibians has been discovered, hiding away in the soils of northeastern India. The creatures are part of the caecilian…
An entirely new family of limbless amphibians has been discovered, hiding away in the soils of northeastern India. The creatures are part of the caecilian…
Deep below the ocean’s surface, huge eddies are often formed. The depths have their own kinds of weather systems. NASA’s Terra satellite captured this photo…
Astronomers launched a NASA-funded rocket into the aurora borealis, which are colloquially known as the northern lights. The 46-foot (14-meter) rocket, the Magnetosphere-Ionosphere Coupling in…
A new study published in the journal Science states that rainfall soothes the atmosphere, almost as much as turbulence. They calculated that a substantial portion…
Researchers at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) think that they could use graphite foam to harness energy from the temperature gradient in tropical waters,…
The holy grail of getting into orbit has always been the ultimate development of space elevators, long, thin strands that could ferry passengers and cargo…
Researchers studying the iridescent properties of butterfly wings think that this could help engineers develop temperature sensors that are smaller and faster. This technology could…
Researchers at Drexel University are planning to print robotic dinosaurs that have been cast from real fossils, in an effort to better understand them. Kenneth…
Engineers at UCLA have developed a cost-effective cell-phone attachment that can detect the presence of the bacterium E. coli in food and water. FINDINGS: Researchers…
Researchers at Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have discovered a region within group II chaperonins, which detects the presence of the ATP molecules…
At the turn of the 19th century, the binary star system Eta Carinae was faint and undistinguished. In the first decades of the century, it…
Based on data gathered at the Tevatron accelerator, researchers from the CDF collaboration have just unveiled the world’s most precise measurement of the W boson…
Researchers at Rice University have created a nano-infused oil that uses a very tiny amount of hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) particles suspended in standard mineral…
A new study from the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev examined the prevalence of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) among Israeli firefighters. The research shows that…
Researchers at University of Leeds have developed biosensor technology that could form the basis of a non-invasive diagnostic for Adenovirus. By using antibodies attached to…
A new study by scientists at Imperial College London, the University of Birmingham, and the University of Würzburg in Germany examined Popeye domain containing proteins…
Recently published research papers reveal new details of how Saturn’s moon Titan shifts with the seasons and throughout the day. The research is based on…
Researchers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and MIT have designed a compact cell sorter that requires no additional parts or steps. Their cell-sorting microchip takes…