On November 8, 2020, NASA's Juno spacecraft flew through an intense beam of electrons traveling from Ganymede, Jupiter's largest moon, to its auroral footprint on the gas giant. Southwest Research In… [+3259 chars]
In recent years, researchers have begun to explore the vast assemblage of microbes on and within the human body. These include protists, archaea, fungi, viruses and vast numbers of bacteria living in… [+7841 chars]
Over the years, there have been a number of proposed explanations for why the forelimbs of the T. rex were so short. These include social signaling, holding down prey, stabbing enemies, helping the d… [+2372 chars]
The Hubble Space Telescope has observed the most distant star ever seen Earendel, meaning morning star. Even though Earendel is 50 times the mass of the Sun, and millions of times brighter, we would … [+4713 chars]
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain A new study provides the first evidence that rising greenhouse gases have a long-term warming effect on the Amundsen Sea in West Antarctica. Scientists from Britis… [+3331 chars]
The issue around renaming the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has not been settled yet as new revelations claim NASA was completely aware of the alleged homophobia exhibited by the telescope's name… [+2101 chars]
The term near-Earth object or NEO refers to any celestial body of a significant size. The starting point is to find out those objects whose orbit brings them close to Earth. These include asteroids, … [+3660 chars]
(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.)(THE CONVERSATION) 2022 marks the 100th birthday of Nobel Prize winning chemist Har Go… [+6523 chars]
In his adolescent dreams as a student at Wheaton Warrenville South High School, Brian Welch fantasized about a pie-in-the-sky career as a star tight end with the Chicago Bears. Instead, the 27-year-… [+4642 chars]
The analysis of astrophysical plasmas is vital in the quest to learn about some of the Universe’s most powerful and mysterious objects and events such as stellar coronae and winds, cataclysmic variab… [+2690 chars]
The exoplanet, discovered by NASA's Kepler space telescope, officially designated K2-2016-BLG-0005Lb. (Image credit: D. Specht et al, Kepler K2 ) NASA's Kepler space telescope has spotted a Jupiter … [+4438 chars]
Apr 5 2022Reviewed by Alex Smith An international group of scientists, including many from the University of Hawai‘i (UH) at Mānoa, has computed five important ecological processes on over 500 coral… [+4041 chars]
