Humans Are Leaving Behind a Frozen Legacy of Microbes on Mount Everest
Located nearly 5 miles above sea level in the Himalayas, the barren, wind-swept depression between Mount Everest and its neighboring summit, Lhotse, remains devoid of…
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Scientists Discover Unique Microbial Community on Short-Lived Former Island
A team led by CU Boulder has uncovered a distinctive microbial community residing on the former island Hunga Tonga Hunga Ha’apai. In 2015, an underwater…
Secrets of 9-Foot Tall, 1,500-Pound Elephant Birds Revealed by Ancient Eggshells
More than 1,200 years ago, flightless elephant birds roamed the island of Madagascar and laid eggs bigger than footballs. While these ostrich-like giants are now…
Uncovering the Past: The Most Detailed Look Yet at Earth’s Climatic History
University of Colorado at Boulder scientists and an international team of researchers have revealed the most in-depth view yet of the Earth’s recent climate history…
In Massive Galactic Discovery, Webb Spots Super Old Galaxies That Shouldn’t Exist – “It’s Bananas!”
In a new study, an international team of astrophysicists has discovered several mysterious objects hiding in images from the James Webb Space Telescope: six potential…
New Grasshopper-Like Material Can Leap 200 Times Its Own Thickness
Engineers at the University of Colorado Boulder have created a new, rubber-like film that can jump high into the air independently, mimicking the motion of…
NASA’s Orion Spacecraft Will Soon Enter Earth’s Atmosphere at Nearly 25,000 Mph – What Will Happen Next?
NASA’s Orion spacecraft will splash down in the Pacific Ocean on Sunday at 9:39 a.m. PST (12:39 p.m. EST), bringing an end to a several-week-long…
You Don’t Want To See What Comes Up When You Flush a Public Restroom Toilet
Scientists Shine a Light on What Comes Up When You Flush Thanks to new research, scientists see the impact of flushing the toilet in a…
Entanglement-Enhanced Matter-Wave Interferometer: Now With Double the Spookiness!
A team of researchers at JILA has for the first time successfully combined two of the “spookiest” features of quantum mechanics to make a better…
Molecular Beehive: Physicists Probe “Astonishing” Morphing Properties of Honeycomb-Like Quantum Material
Physicists discovered a new quantum state in a honeycomb-like material Mn3Si2Te6, where “loop currents” of electrons transform the material’s properties from an insulator to a…
Parallels to HIV: Another Fatal Monkey Virus Could Be Poised for Spillover to Humans
Evoking parallels to HIV, authors are calling on global health community to be vigilant. According to new research, an obscure family of viruses, already endemic…
Lacking Diversity and Equality: Just a Handful of Universities Control Flow of Ideas, People in Academia
According to new research from the University of Colorado at Boulder (CU Boulder), just five U.S. universities have trained 1-in-8 tenure-track faculty members serving at…
Russians Building a Satellite-Blinding Laser – An Expert Explains the Ominous Technology
According to a recent report in The Space Review, Russia is building a new ground-based laser facility for interfering with satellites orbiting overhead. The basic…
Hopping Space Dust and Curious Asteroid Surprises
Tiny grains of dust may hop around on the surface of asteroids like corn kernels popping in a frying pan, according to a new study…
Future Cities Could Be Built Out of Algae-Produced Material
How scientists hope to use algae-grown limestone to build cities The burning of limestone from quarries contributes significantly to the 7% of the yearly greenhouse…
Counting Galaxies To Solve a Cosmological Puzzle: Putting the Theory of Special Relativity Into Practice
The theory of relativity was developed by Albert Einstein in the early 1900s due to the inability of classical physics to explain certain observations. It…
A Race Against Time: Quick Engineering Saves NASA’s MAVEN Spacecraft
NASA’s MAVEN Spacecraft Resumes Science & Operations, Exits Safe Mode After three months in safe mode, NASA’s MAVEN spacecraft has finally returned to normal science…
A Strange Surging Glow in a Distant Galaxy Could Change the Way We Look at Black Holes
Something weird is going on in the galaxy known as 1ES 1927+654: In late 2017, and for reasons that scientists couldn’t explain, the supermassive black…
