Air Pollution As Bad As a Pack a Day of Cigarettes in Accelerating Lung Disease
Air pollution — especially ozone air pollution which is increasing with climate change — accelerates the progression of emphysema of the lung, according to a…
Air pollution — especially ozone air pollution which is increasing with climate change — accelerates the progression of emphysema of the lung, according to a…
At the human scale, controlling temperature is a straightforward concept. Turtles sun themselves to keep warm. To cool a pie fresh from the oven, place…
First cells on ancient Earth may have emerged because building blocks of proteins stabilized membranes. Life on Earth arose about 4 billion years ago when…
In recent years, the idea of life on other planets has become less far-fetched. NASA announced on June 27 that it will send a vehicle…
Many stars explode as luminous supernovae when, swollen with age, they run out of fuel for nuclear fusion. But some stars can go supernova simply…
Not all stars are like the sun, so not all planetary systems can be studied with the same expectations. New research from a University of…
Planets orbiting “short-period” binary stars, or stars locked in close orbital embrace, can be ejected off into space as a consequence of their host stars’…
After a great mass extinction shook the world about 252 million years ago, animal life outside of the ocean began to take hold. The earliest…
As NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope and other new giant telescopes come online they will need novel strategies to look for evidence of life on…
Scientists have created computationally designed protein assemblies, which display some functions normally associated with living things, in the search for ways to transport therapeutic cargos…
A new study from the University of Washington shows that with a changing climate, Mount Rainier floral communities could ‘reassemble’ with new species relationships and…
A team of astronomers from the University of Washington has created a “habitability index for transiting planets” to help guide the ongoing search for life…
A new study from the the University of Washington details how Earth-like planets orbiting close to small stars may have magnetic fields that protect them…
New research from astronomers at the University of Washington details how some habitable exoplanets could experience wildly unpredictable climates. As telescopes of ever-greater power scan…
New research from the University of Washington found evidence that life was pulling nitrogen out of the air and converting it into a form that…
A new study from the University of Washington details how strong irradiation from the host star can cause planets known as mini-Neptunes in the habitable…
A new study published in Geophysical Research Letters reveals that warmer Pacific Ocean temperatures could release millions of tons of seafloor methane. Off the West…
New research reveals that planets in the habitable zone of low-mass stars may have long since lost their chance at hosting life because of intense…