A Wolf Awakens in the Galápagos Islands at Night
The glow of a volcanic eruption in the Galápagos Islands was captured by the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) on the NOAA-NASA Suomi NPP…
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Glacial erosion likely caused atmospheric oxygen levels to dip over past 800,000 years. An unknown culprit has been removing oxygen from our atmosphere for at…
Sending Life to the Stars: Scientists Contemplate Launching Tiny Lifeforms Into Interstellar Space
No longer solely in the realm of science fiction, the possibility of interstellar travel has appeared, tantalizingly, on the horizon. Although we may not see…
Cold Case File: Mysterious Deaths in the Arctic
Through the use of remotely sensed data, scientists were able to understand the mysterious deaths of caribou in Canada and reindeer in the Bering Sea…
We Asked a NASA Scientist: Why Can You See the Moon During the Day? [Video]
Why can you see the Moon during the day? Easy, because it’s there! It may seem odd to look up at the daytime sky and…
NASA’s Mars Perseverance Rover Has Debris Obstructing Bit Carousel After Latest Sample Collection
On Wednesday, December 29 (sol 306) Perseverance successfully cored and extracted a sample from a Mars rock. Data downlinked after the sampling indicates that coring…
Hubble Lends a Helping Hand to NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope
Far above rain clouds, light pollution, and atmospheric distortion, NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has a clear view of the universe. It has shown us distant…
How Do Volcanoes Form? Scientists Find Surprisingly Cool “Hotspots” Under Earth’s Crust
The findings suggest current theories of how some volcanoes form may be too simple. The hotspots that created volcanic islands such as those of Hawaii,…
How To Weigh a Quasar: Directly Measuring Masses of Supermassive Black Holes
Testing a new, direct method for determining the masses of supermassive black holes. Astronomers of the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy have, for the first…
Life in the “Dead” Heart of Australia – Incredible New “Lagerstätte” Fossil Site Discovered
New Australian fossil site offers details of verdant landscape 15 million years ago. A team of Australian and international scientists led by Australian Museum (AM)…
Searching the Cosmos for Signs of Dark Matter
“There need to be more building blocks than the ones we know about,” says the particle physicist. Kerstin Perez is searching for imprints of…
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Enhanced nerve transmission seen in older adults who remained active. When elderly people stay active, their brains have more of a class of proteins that…
MIT Physicists Watch As Ultracold Atoms Form a Crystal of Quantum Tornadoes
The new observations record a key crossover from classical to quantum behavior. The world we experience is governed by classical physics. How we move, where…
Lost in Space: Earth and Mars Were Formed From Missing Solar System Material
By looking at the range of isotopic variations in terrestrial and meteoritic samples, a Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) scientist and collaborators have figured out…
Harvard’s New Genetics Research on Ancient Britain Contains Insights on Language, Ancestry, Kinship, Milk
Two new studies highlight technological advances in large-scale genomics and open windows into the lives of ancient people. New research reveals a major migration to…
How Do You See the World? People With Creative Personalities Really Do See the Things Differently
What is it about a creative work such as a painting or piece of music that elicits our awe and admiration? Is it the thrill…
Astronomers Capture Red Supergiant Star Exploding in Massive Supernova – For the Very First Time
Astronomers Capture Red Supergiant’s Death Throes “For the first time, we watched a red supergiant star explode,” researcher says. For the first time ever, astronomers…
Breakthrough Puts All-Solid-State Batteries One Step Closer to Becoming Next-Generation Powerhouse
Scientists Reduce All-Solid-State Battery Resistance by Heating All-solid-state batteries are now one step closer to becoming the powerhouse of next-generation electronics as researchers from Tokyo…