NASA Makes Earth’s Oceans Look like Van Gogh’s Starry Night
This incredible visualization of the Earth and its oceans was created by the Scientific Visualization Studio at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center. It’s called Perpetual…
This incredible visualization of the Earth and its oceans was created by the Scientific Visualization Studio at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center. It’s called Perpetual…
Periodical invasions of cicadas are common across the eastern United States and giant silk moths (Citheronia azteca) might have evolved to resemble cicadas as a…
By studying the brittlestar Ophiocoma wendtii, whose body is covered with tiny crystalline lenses made of calcium carbonate, scientists were able to create high quality…
The flu can be lethal in some patients, but benign in others. The reason that this is the way that flu infections work might be…
Although elephants vanished from the United Arab Emirates a long time ago, it appears that footprints made roughly seven million years ago in the Arabian…
By building on a technology known as two-dimensional infrared spectroscopy, scientists at MIT have developed a way to analyze proteins that doesn’t require any pre-treatment….
Scientists have confirmed that there have been no sightings of the copper striped blue-tailed skink in the Hawaiian Islands since the 1960s and are now…
It’s hard to believe that the only tuberculosis vaccine currently available is over 90 years old. Since the BCG vaccine only protects young children, scientists…
While working with mice, researchers were able to use a new magnetic nanoparticle-based MRI technique to predict Type-1 diabetes and were able to leverage this…
As efforts continue to improve nanotechnology and molecular electronic devices, a team of researchers has provided the first experimental determination of the pathways by which…
As researchers to continue monitor and assess the recent solar activity, new data shows that the thermosphere absorbed 26 billion kWh of energy over a…
A new genomics technique developed at Cornell University is roughly 50 times cheaper than comparable methods. The cost effectiveness of this new method, called Genotyping-by-sequencing…
The power of the Hubble Space Telescope never ceases to amaze. Pictured above is the most detailed image ever taken of the globular cluster Messier…
To help bring awareness to the importance of Earth’s groundwater, a new map showing the world’s groundwater supplies has been created in part from data…
Lost memories may be a thing of the past as neuroscientists conduct research on mice to test memory recall. By using optogenetics and stimulating the…
Scientists now have a better understanding of gas giant exoplanets and what is going on in their cores. By studying computer simulations, scientists believe that…
With every new technology, there are costs and environmental impacts to consider, and that’s exactly what MIT’s Environmentally Benign Manufacturing research group does. By routinely…
Hidden beneath mounds of Earth, in the fertile crescent of the Middle East, lie overlooked networks of small settlements that date back millennia. Archaeologists are…