Materials scientists may soon be able to control material properties with light. A team consisting of researchers at Kyoto University and Kurume Institute of Technology have discovered a scaling law… [+2759 chars]
Without the ocean, the climate crisis would be even worse than it is. Each year, the ocean absorbs billions of tons of carbon from the atmosphere, preventing warming that greenhouse gas would otherwi… [+4608 chars]
Reef fish in French Polynesia, Moorea. (Photo credit: Sergio Floeter) An international team of researchers, including several from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, has quantified five critical ec… [+3453 chars]
Aprils full Moon rises on Saturday, April 16, and reaches peak illumination at 2:57 p.m. ET. Lifehack: Enjoy the Pink Moons peak illumination while listening to Nick Drakes seminal, bittersweet 1972 … [+2223 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]
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]
Biomedical engineers at Duke University believe they have discovered the physical mechanism that causes high doses of antibiotics to promote the spread of antibiotic resistance between bacteria.The c… [+4673 chars]
NASA looked to complete its Artemis moon rocket tanking test at Kennedy Space Center after an issue forced a scrub on Sunday, but a new valve issue forced mission managers to call it off again. NASA… [+3409 chars]
The paper presents a complete 3.055 billion-base pair sequence of a specific human genome, T2T-CHM13, adding 400 million letters to the previously sequenced DNA and correcting several errors in it. … [+2470 chars]
A new study published in the journal Ecosphere has found that spotted hyenas (Crocuta crocuta) are able to adjust to a reduced presence of migratory prey in their territories induced by climate chang… [+3025 chars]
While much is known about the evolution of the brains of modern-day mammals, it has been unclear until now how they developed in the first few million years following the mass extinction. It had bee… [+1946 chars]
Researchers have designed customized “transgenic” lettuce that can help astronauts combat micro-gravity-induced bone loss. Genetically engineered to produce a bone stimulating hormone, the lettuce ca… [+4888 chars]
