Squid, octopus, and cuttlefish -- even to scientists who study them -- are wonderfully weird creatures. Known as the soft-bodied or coleoid cephalopods, they have the largest nervous system of any in… [+8396 chars]
BySciTechDailyMay 4, 2022 Animation depicting a black widow pulsar and its small stellar companion. Credit: NASAs Goddard Space Flight Center/Cruz deWilde The system, which may have originated near… [+9763 chars]
Scientists at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego, the J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI), and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) used tools of genetics research… [+4464 chars]
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It has shown that even a relatively weak jet from a supermassive black hole can clear the nuclear region of the galaxy of its gas, indicating that they may be playing an essential role in the evoluti… [+4291 chars]
Scientists have developed a new model of the universe which suggests its currently observed accelerated expansion could end as early as 100 million years from now, after which it would transition to … [+3904 chars]
What would you do if a massive asteroid was coming our way? We've all likely enacted disaster movie scenarios in our heads. Thankfully though, we won't have to witness one on May 6, despite recent r… [+2959 chars]
