Late Monday night a Twitter account posted a video that purported to show what the moon looks like from the North Pole. The Internet was mesmerized and people were in awe of what nature could do. The… [+902 chars]
A gigantic "potentially hazardous" asteroid that may be twice the size of the Empire State Building is set to zoom past Earth Thursday (April 28), according to NASA. The asteroid, named 418135 (2008… [+2622 chars]
Late Monday night a Twitter account posted a video that purported to show what the moon looks like from the North Pole. The Internet was mesmerized and people were in awe of what nature could do. The… [+902 chars]
Research | Science | UW News blog April 26, 2022 This artists impression highlights the compactness of molecular gas in a post-starburst galaxy and its lack of star formation.ALMA/S. Dagnello … [+5427 chars]
When holding a right hand in front of a mirror, one can see a reflected image of a left hand and vice versa. In 1848, Louis Pasteur discovered that organic molecules are much like our hands: they com… [+4410 chars]
An international team of astronomers have analysed archival data of 25 Hot Jupiterexoplanets, answering important unanswered questions about these gas giants with extreme atmospheric conditions. Hot … [+7193 chars]
A venomous bloodworm species grows bizarre, deadly metal teeth, and now scientists know how: with a single, simple protein that transforms copper deposits located at the bottom of the seafloor into f… [+2812 chars]
After scrutinizing a staggering one thousand hours of telescope data -- divided between observations from NASA's Hubble and Spitzer -- international scientists discovered that a bunch of exoplanets s… [+4093 chars]
NASA's marsquake-hunting lander has detected its two largest seismic events to date — and on the far side of the planet, no less. NASA's InSight lander touched down on Mars in November 2018 carr… [+3979 chars]
Working with tiny bacteria, Michigan State University researchers led by Lee Kroos have made a discovery that could have big implications for biology. The researchers have revealed a new way that na… [+8275 chars]
Earlier, it was thought that post-starburst galaxies scatter all of their gas and dust — the fuel needed to create new stars — in violent bursts of energy, and at incredible speeds. Post-starburst g… [+5160 chars]
Even the smallest organism can have a major influence on the evolution of life on Earth. Microscopic algae that inhabit the sunlit waters of the ocean surface are not only responsible for about half … [+7268 chars]
