Distant Long-Period Comets Quickly Fade Away
As comets approach the Sun, they release gas and dust known to astronomers as cometary activity. For comets passing near or inside Earth’s orbit, this…
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Artificial Intelligence Used To Search for the Next SARS-COV-2
Daniel Becker, an assistant professor of biology in the University of Oklahoma’s Dodge Family College of Arts and Sciences, has been leading a proactive modeling…
Astronomers Discover a “Changing-Look” Blazar – A Powerful Active Galactic Nucleus
A University of Oklahoma doctoral student, graduate and undergraduate research assistants, and an associate professor in the Homer L. Dodge Department of Physics and Astronomy…
Search for New Antibiotics to Combat “Two of the Most Wicked Healthcare Problems We Face”
University of Oklahoma researchers published an opinion article in the journal Nature Chemical Biology that addresses the gap in the discovery of new antibiotics. “The continuing emergence…
Fearsome 2,000 Pound Beast: Solving the Mystery of a 13,000 Year-Old Bone Discovered on the California Channel Islands
The California Channel Islands are renowned for their archaeological, biological, and paleontological significance and richness, containing some of the most important early human sites in…
Citizen Scientists Discover Closest Young Brown Dwarf Disk Ever – Just 102 Parsecs Away
Discovery made through the Disk Detective project could help the search for new planets. Brown dwarfs are the middle child of astronomy, too big to…
Sequencing the Human Genome Was Supposed to Revolutionize Treatment of Disease – Here’s Why It Failed
Why sequencing the human genome failed to produce big breakthroughs in disease. An emergency room physician, initially unable to diagnose a disoriented patient, finds on…
300-Million-Year-Old Atmospheric Dust Analyzed by Geoscientists – Here’s What They Found
University of Oklahoma geoscientists document the role of atmospheric dust on marine ecosystems 300 million years ago. Dust plays a crucial role in the life…
Mars’ Growth Stunted by Planetary Instability, Could Have Become Habitable
A University of Oklahoma astrophysics team explains why the growth of Mars was stunted by an orbital instability among the outer solar system’s giant planets…
Quasar Microlensing Reveals Planets in Extragalactic Galaxies
A University of Oklahoma astrophysics team has discovered for the first time a population of planets beyond the Milky Way galaxy. Using microlensing–an astronomical phenomenon…
Researchers are Engineering Safer Drinking Water in Africa
Having too much naturally occurring fluoride in the water supply can result in darkening or mottling of the teeth and bowed legs or deformed knees…
