Higher Elevation Himalayan Songbirds Sport Thicker Down “Jackets” to Survive the Cold
Study of Himalayan songbirds in museum collections is first step toward using feathers to predict the effects of climate change for birds in extreme environments….
7 Minutes to Mars: NASA’s Perseverance Rover Attempts Most Dangerous Landing Yet [Video]
All landings on Mars are difficult, but NASA’s Perseverance rover is attempting to touch down in the most challenging terrain on Mars ever targeted. The…
Student Astronomer Uses Ingenious Method to Find Galactic Missing Matter
Distant galaxies used as ‘locator pins’ to detect ‘invisible’ gas cloud. Half of the universe’s matter is ‘missing,’ but PhD student Yuanming Wang has developed…
Remarkably Well-Preserved Fossils Helping to Solve Baffling Puzzle That Vexed Darwin
Remarkably well-preserved fossils are helping scientists unravel a mystery about the origins of early animals that puzzled Charles Darwin. Analysis of the 547 million-year-old remains…
Analyzing Dust Storm Sequences on Mars
Dust storms are one of the defining features of the Martian atmosphere. They range from microscale dust devils to global events, and greatly impact the…
New Physics Rules Tested by Using a Quantum Computer to Create a “Toy-Universe”
Simulation of non-Hermitian quantum mechanics using a quantum computer goes beyond centuries-old conventions. Aalto researchers have used an IBM quantum computer to explore an overlooked…
The Comet That Killed the Dinosaurs: New Theory on Origin of the Chicxulub Impactor
It was tens of miles wide and forever changed history when it crashed into Earth about 66 million years ago. The Chicxulub impactor, as it’s…
Tantrums of a Baby Star: Herbig-Haro Objects
Herbig-Haro objects are some of the rarer sights in the night sky, taking the form of thin spindly jets of matter floating amongst the surrounding…
Unexpected Life: Strange Creatures Accidentally Discovered Far Beneath Antarctica’s Ice Shelves
Far underneath the ice shelves of the Antarctic, there’s more life than expected, finds a recent study in the journal Frontiers in Marine Science. During an…
The COVID-19 Coronavirus – SARS-CoV-2 – Might Hijack Cellular Processes
Protein Sequences Provide Clues to How SARS-CoV-2 Infects Cells Researchers at EMBL Heidelberg have identified sequences in human proteins that might be used by SARS-CoV-2…
NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter: Teaching an Old Spacecraft New Tricks to Continue Exploring the Moon
NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) spacecraft has far exceeded its planned mission duration, revealing that the Moon holds surprises: ice deposits that could be used…
New Worlds in a River of Young Stars Discovered by NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite
Using observations from NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), an international team of astronomers has discovered a trio of hot worlds larger than Earth orbiting…
More Than Half of Cannabis Users With Parkinson’s Disease Report Clinical Benefits
A survey in Germany found over 8% of patients with Parkinson’s disease are using cannabis products and more than half experienced beneficial clinical effects, reports…
DNA Energy Code: “Survival of the Fittest” Phenomenon Is Only Part of the Evolution Equation
Genetic code evolution and Darwin’s evolution theory should consider DNA an “energy code.” Darwin’s theory of evolution should be expanded to include consideration of a…
Tiny Crustacean Redefines Ultra-Fast Movement: Monster Claw Snaps Shut 10,000 Times Faster Than Blink of an Eye
Bitty Critter With A Giant Claw Lives Under the Dock at Duke Marine Lab The world’s most technologically advanced robots would lose in a competition…
“Farfarout” Indeed: Planetoid Confirmed to Be Solar System’s Most Distant Known Object
Gemini North helps define remote object’s distance and orbit. With the help of the international Gemini Observatory, a Program of NSF’s NOIRLab, and other ground-based…
How Uncertainty in the Bitcoin Market Responds to Cyberattacks
A University of Vaasa researcher, Klaus Grobys, investigates how the uncertainty in the Bitcoin market reacts if Bitcoin is subject to hacking incidents – or…
NIH Researchers: Humidity From Masks May Lessen Severity of COVID-19
NIH study compares how different face masks affect humidity inside the mask. Masks help protect the people wearing them from getting or spreading SARS-CoV-2, the…
