Coral Bleaching: Catalyst for Microbial Mayhem Below the Surface
New findings show that coral bleaching prompts the release of compounds that encourage harmful bacterial growth, suggesting these changes could serve as early indicators of…
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Brighter Than a Thousand Suns: Scientists Unravel Physics Behind Unusual Behavior of Stars’ Super Flares
The Sun generates solar flares that can affect Earth, with the most intense ones capable of causing blackouts and communication disruptions worldwide. However, these solar…
Unveiling the Mysteries of Titan’s Icy Faults: A Journey Through Space Geology
Scientists have discovered strike-slip faults on the icy moons of our solar system, similar to those seen at the San Andreas fault in California. These…
Moon’s Mystery Moisture: Electrons From Earth May Be Forming Lunar Water
Scientists from the University of Hawai‘i found that Earth’s plasma sheet electrons affect the Moon’s weathering and may help form water. The discovery deepens our…
Vast Bubble of Galaxies Discovered – Believed To Be a Remnant From the Universe’s Inception
Astronomers have identified an immense bubble, Hoʻoleilana, 820 million light years away. This structure, believed to be a remnant from the universe’s inception and larger…
Blocking the Sun: A Solar “Umbrella” Tethered to Asteroid To Help Mitigate Climate Change
Shading Earth: An Innovative Solar Shield Tethered to an Asteroid to Combat Climate Change Earth is rapidly warming and scientists are developing various methods to…
Scientists Discover That Hawai’i’s Undersea Volcano, Kama’ehu, Has Erupted 5 Times in the Past 150 Years
The submarine Hawaiian volcano Kamaʻehuakanaloa, formerly known as Lōʻihi Seamount, situated roughly 20 miles from the southern shore of Hawai’i’s Big Island, has experienced at…
Life After Death: Astronomers Discover a Mysterious Planet That Shouldn’t Exist
Astronomers from the University of Hawaii Institute for Astronomy have discovered a planet that survived what should have been a catastrophic event caused by its…
Boulder Bonanza! Science and Sampling Attempts at the Onahu Outcrop on Mars
The Mars Perseverance Rover struggled to collect samples from a crumbly, potentially conglomerate rock at the Onahu outcrop, before exploring another location, Stone Man Pass….
Scientists Solve Colorful Kuiper Belt Mystery
The Kuiper Belt, a vast disk brimming with icy bodies including Pluto and located just beyond Neptune’s orbit in our solar system, exhibits an intriguing…
A Plastic Oasis: Scientists Uncover Surprising Refuge for Coastal Marine Species
A team of researchers from the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center (SERC) and the University of Hawai‘i (UH) at Mānoa, has recently published a study in…
“Cosmological Coupling” – New Evidence Points to Black Holes as Source of Dark Energy
Searching through existing data spanning 9 billion years, a team of researchers led by scientists at the University of Hawaiʻi at Manoa has uncovered the…
Climate Change Will Result in More Rainbows
According to new research, chances to see rainbows will rise in northern latitudes while falling in many tropical regions. According to a recent study conducted…
Startling Consequences of Global Warming: Oceans Are Losing Their Memory
Using future projections from the latest generation of Earth System Models, a recent study published in Science Advances found that most of the world’s ocean…
We’ve Arrived! NASA’s Mars Perseverance Rover Starts the Delta Front Campaign
We made it! Perseverance is at the delta, and showering us with incredible images to pore over. Mars 2020 is officially out of “Rapid Traverse”…
Elusive Atmospheric Molecule Produced in a Lab for the First Time
The previously elusive methanediol molecule of importance to the organic, atmospheric science, and astrochemistry communities has been synthetically produced for the first time by University…
Advanced Analysis of Apollo Moon Rock Sample Illuminates Lunar Evolution
Sophisticated analysis of a rock sample taken from the Moon during the Apollo 17 mission nearly 50 years ago revealed new information about the complex…
Astronomers Trace the Movement of 10,000 Galaxies Over the Last 11.5 Billion Years
Everything in our universe moves, but the timescales needed to see motion are often vastly greater than human lifetimes. In a major new study, a…