May 10 2022Reviewed by Alex Smith Ice shelves are nothing but floating extensions of glaciers. According to the result of a new study performed, if Greenland’s second-largest ice shelf splits, it mi… [+2893 chars]
Much of what scientists think about soil metabolism may be wrong. New evidence from Northern Arizona University suggests that microbes in different soils use different biochemical pathways to process… [+4801 chars]
Scientists at Brookhaven National Laboratory have been using a superfast high-resolution "camera" that tracks the trajectories of atoms, to help them discover and develop materials that can send and … [+3256 chars]
Sunspots aren't the only speckles decorating the dynamic face of our Sun. Solar physicists have made a close study of tiny, fleeting speckles of brightness that emerge and fade in less than a minute … [+3978 chars]
ByColumbia UniversityMay 10, 2022 In this simulation of a supermassive black hole merger, the blue-shifted black hole closest to the viewer amplifies the red-shifted black hole in the back through g… [+8862 chars]
To owls, the distress call of the greater mouse-eared bat sounds similar to hornets buzzing.Credit: F. Deschandol and P. Sabine/Biosphoto/Minden Pictures Some bats can imitate the sound of buzzing h… [+3200 chars]
May 10 2022Reviewed by Alex Smith The heart of chemistry and biology is phenomena that last trillionths of a second. They are everywhere. The world has only recently started trying to document their… [+5318 chars]
A new University of Michigan study that used fossil oyster shells as paleothermometers found the shallow sea that covered much of western North America 95 million years ago was as warm as today's tro… [+5853 chars]
ESAs Mars Express orbiter has revealed an undiscovered characteristic of the geology of Mars in never-before-seen clarity. The surface appears to have developed giant scratch marks across its surface… [+1542 chars]
A Hubble image taken on Dec. 5, 2005 of the Main Belt asteroid 2001 SE101 passing in front of the Crab Nebula. (Image credit: © NASA/ESA HST, Image processing: Melina Thévenot) Astronomers have re… [+4618 chars]
