Mysterious Visitor From the Depths of Space Swings Past Sun
When astronomers see something in the universe that at first glance seems like one-of-a-kind, it’s bound to stir up a lot of excitement and attention….
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Some People With Schizophrenia May Simply Have a Vitamin Deficiency
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…
Global Warming, Ocean Acidification: Earth Was Stressed Before Dinosaur Extinction
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…
Water Erupts Through Fissures on Enceladus’ Icy Surface – New Research Reveals the Physics
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…
NASA’s Return to Venus and What It Means for Earth [Video]
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…
A Surprising Substance May Be Key in Capturing CO2 in the Atmosphere
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…
Scientists Turn Plastic Waste Into Valuable Chemicals With Sunlight
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…
MIT Physicists Believe There’s Dark Matter at the Center of the Milky Way
Is there dark matter at the center of the Milky Way? A new analysis puts dark matter back in the game as a possible source…
Daring Rescue of Monumental Asteroid Mission – Here’s How Engineers Pulled It Off
On Friday, October 11, 2019, the OSIRIS-REx team should have been preparing to point their spacecraft cameras precisely over the asteroid Bennu to capture high-resolution…
Greenland Losing Ice 7 Times Faster Than in 1990s – Lost 3.8 Trillion Metric Tons of Ice Since 1992
Greenland is losing ice seven times faster than in the 1990s and is tracking the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s high-end climate warming scenario, which…
Physicists May Have Just Solved a Fundamental Mystery of How Planets Form
Scientists may have figured out how dust particles can stick together to form planets, according to a Rutgers co-authored study that may also help to…
Ice in Motion: Incredible Time-Lapse Satellite Footage Captures Decades of Change
New time-lapse videos of Earth’s glaciers and ice sheets as seen from space – some spanning nearly 50 years – are providing scientists with new…
Ocean ‘Dead Zones’ With Almost No Oxygen to Sustain Life May Be Expanding Far Quicker Than Thought
Could Dark Carbon Be Hiding the True Scale of Ocean ‘Dead Zones’? Dead zones within the world’s oceans — where there is almost no oxygen…
Secret Behind Metformin’s Weight Loss and Anti-Aging Benefits Revealed
Diabetes drug Metformin shows benefits on aging and a number of diverse diseases. Researchers at McMaster University have unlocked one of the secrets behind the…
Global Food Production at Risk From Large Atmospheric Waves in the Jet Stream
In a new study published today (December 9, 2019) in Nature Climate Change, scientists show how specific wave patterns in the jet stream strongly increase…
Strange Erupting ‘Tiger Stripes’ on Saturn’s Icy Moon Enceladus Finally Explained
Saturn’s tiny, frozen moon Enceladus is a strange place. Just 300 miles across, the moon is thought to have an outer shell of ice covering…
Has Physics Ever Been Deterministic? New Insights on the Relationship Between Classical and Quantum Physics
Researchers from the Austrian Academy of Sciences, the University of Vienna and the University of Geneva, have proposed a new interpretation of classical physics without…
Mysterious Endangered Mammal Has a Venomous Bite – See the Horrifying Venom Delivery Tooth
Researchers from Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM) and ZSL (Zoological Society of London) have worked with a team of scientists from institutions across the…