NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Spots Mystery Rocket Impact Site on Moon
Astronomers discovered a rocket body heading toward a lunar collision late last year. Impact occurred on March 4, 2022, with NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO)…
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In a Flash: Weird Star Produces the Fastest Nova on Record
Most people are familiar with supernovas, the spectacular stellar explosions that occur at the end of a massive star’s life and often result in a…
Watch the Official Trailer: NASA’s Psyche Mission to a Metal World
Join the journey as NASA’s Psyche mission team launches in 2022 to explore a unique metallic asteroid orbiting the sun between Mars and Jupiter. The…
New Hope for Treatment of Parkinson’s Disease: Designer Neurons
Neurodegenerative diseases cause neuronal damage and destruction, wreaking havoc on both mental and physical health. Parkinson’s disease, which affects over 10 million people worldwide, is…
Living Corals Mapped for the First Time Before and After Marine Heat Wave: Winners and Losers Discovered
Research findings could help manage and build a resilient network of coral reefs. As the world’s ocean temperatures rise, so will the number of cases…
Citizen Scientists Help Map Ridge Networks on Mars That May Hold Records of Ancient Groundwater
Scientists have uncovered strange ridge networks on Mars using images from spacecraft orbiting the Red Planet over the previous two decades. How and why the…
Snuggling Sea Turtles Filmed for the First Time
First known filmed footage of the behavior in the elusive marine animal. Do sea turtles canoodle? They do, according to a study published by a…
Two Massive Blobs in Earth’s Mantle Baffle Scientists With Their Surprising Properties
Earth is layered like an onion, with a thin outer crust, a thick viscous mantle, a fluid outer core, and a solid inner core. Within…
New Astrobiology Research Predicts Alien Life “As We Don’t Know It”
The search for alien life has been restricted to using life on Earth as the reference, essentially looking for “life as we know it” beyond…
Astronomer Finds Star Fuel Reservoirs Surrounding Galaxies
Most galaxies, including our own, grow by accumulating new material and turning them into stars — that much is known. What has been unknown is…
New Research on Ring-Shaped Molecules Advances Clean Energy Solutions
Ring-shaped molecules known as porphyrins have potential as effective catalyst. Meeting society’s growing energy needs has become a daunting challenge for humanity. Demands for energy…
“Field Guide” to Mysterious Exoplanets Known As Hot Jupiters
By combining Hubble Space Telescope observations with theoretical models, a team of astronomers has gained insights into the chemical and physical makeup of a variety…
Peto’s Paradox – Biological Enigma Offers New Insights Into the Mystery of Cancer
The cells in the body can be thought of as tiny archery targets, each vulnerable to the deadly arrow of cancer. The more cells a…
Evolution of Personhood: Earliest Adorned Female Infant Burial in Europe Reveals Significant Insights
Ten thousand years ago, just after the last Ice Age, a group of hunter-gatherers buried an infant girl in an Italian cave. They entombed her…
Stress Alone Can Lead to Excessive Drinking in Women – But Not Men
Study shows stress led to drinking more than intended in men only when they already had consumed alcohol. A new study has shown that stress…
New Possibilities for Life in the Strange, Dark World at the Bottom of Earth’s Ocean – And Perhaps in Oceans on Other Planets
In the strange, dark world of the ocean floor, underwater fissures, called hydrothermal vents, host complex communities of life. These vents belch scorching hot fluids…
New Theories and Materials Aid the Transition To Clean Energy: Enzyme Catalysis, Electrocatalysis, and Photoelectrosynthesis
With each passing day, the dark side of our addiction to fossil fuels becomes more apparent. In addition to slashing emissions of carbon dioxide, society…
Theory of Mind: Children Do Not Understand Concept of Others Having False Beliefs Until Age 6 or 7
New developmental psychology work has upended decades of research suggesting that children as young as 4 years old possess theory of mind. Having theory of…
