An illustration featuring mammalian herbivores (green), omnivores (purple), invertivores (yellow) and carnivores (red). Each column includes mammal species lost in the past 2.58 million years (light … [+9073 chars]
image: Infected brain blood vessels (purple containing yellow) with spread of infection into the brain (dark spaces containing yellow)view more Credit: University of Sheffield <ul><li>New research… [+3630 chars]
THURSDAY, April 21, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Pterosaurs -- the flying relatives of dinosaurs -- could control the color of their plumage, researchers have discovered. Pterosaurs lived alongside dino… [+1758 chars]
It is well known that global warming is causing sea levels to rise via two processes: thermal expansion, when water expands because of its increased temperature, and melting of land-based ice, when m… [+2432 chars]
To get to the places where they are needed, immune cells not only squeeze through tiny pores. They even overcome wall-like barriers of tightly packed cells. Scientists at the Institute of Science and… [+4699 chars]
We're not going to stop saying it. The James Webb Space Telescope is going to change modern astronomy for keeps, in so many ways that it will outshine even the Hubble Space Telescope in scope and de… [+3887 chars]
SpaceX launched 53 Starlink satellites to low-Earth orbit from Florida Thursday afternoon. Falcon 9's first stage successfully returned to Earth and landed on the Just Read the Instructions droneship… [+126 chars]
Astronomers have learned an almost unfathomable amount about stars in recent decades, but the heavens still manage to surprise us on occasion. A team of scientists using the European Southern Observa… [+2250 chars]
MIT chemists have devised a new chemical reaction that allows them to synthesize a phosphorus-containing ring, using a catalyst to add phosphorus to simple organic compounds called alkenes.Their reac… [+4615 chars]
A serendipitous discovery has led researchers from the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) in Kenya and the Roslin Institute at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland to identify a gen… [+4890 chars]
A pre-print paper on humanity's timeline titled "Avoiding the Great Filter: Predicting the Timeline for Humanity to Reach Kardashev Type I Civilization" has been published on arXiv. Russian astrophy… [+1657 chars]
An international research team uses a global sampling of seawater to reveal which tropical reef fish occur where. To identify species and families, they successfully used the residual DNA shed by the… [+5848 chars]
