Salt crystals from Central Australia hold ancient microorganisms that became trapped 830 million years ago, new research finds. And there’s a chance that some of the microorganisms might still be a… [+4539 chars]
ByMatt Wood, University of ChicagoMay 18, 2022 Like many octopuses, the California two-spot octopus (Octopus bimaculoides) declines and dies shortly after breeding. Credit: Tom Kleindinst, Marine Bi… [+10213 chars]
Tonga's January eruption created atmospheric reactions 'unprecedented in the modern geophysical record' A boat at sea had this view of the smoke rising from the eruption. The Tongan volcano has cre… [+5122 chars]
NASA and Boeing are about to launch another test flight of the CST-100 Starliner spacecraft in a crucial mission following a failed attempt in 2019. The uncrewed mission will launch from Cape Canave… [+1933 chars]
Produced inside NASA's Cold Atom Lab, ultracold bubbles provide new opportunities to experiment with an exotic state of matter. Since the days of NASA's Apollo program, astronauts have documented (a… [+5655 chars]
A seasonal imbalance in the amount of solar energy absorbed and released by the planet Mars is a likely cause of the dust storms that have long intrigued observers, a team of researchers reports.Mars… [+3902 chars]
Agriculture, loss of habitat or wastewater effluents — human stressors negatively impact biodiversity in streams and rivers. Very little is known yet about the extent to which their capacity for self… [+3473 chars]
For the past few days, we've all been fawning over the glorious new image of our Milky Way's black hole. But for a moment, we might want to pause and pay our respects to a lonely chasm across the uni… [+7168 chars]
A NASA spacecraft on Mars is headed for a dusty demise. The InSight lander is losing power because of all the dust on its solar panels. NASA said Tuesday it will keep using the spacecraft's seismom… [+1968 chars]
Illustration of cloud-like ionized plasma in the ITER tokamak fusion reactor. credit: ITER Physicists at EPFL, in a major European collaboration, have revised one of the fundamental laws that has be… [+6750 chars]
ByMatt Wood, University of ChicagoMay 18, 2022 Like many octopuses, the California two-spot octopus (Octopus bimaculoides) declines and dies shortly after breeding. Credit: Tom Kleindinst, Marine Bi… [+10197 chars]
A seasonal imbalance in the amount of solar energy absorbed and released by the planet Mars is a likely cause of the dust storms that have long intrigued observers, a team of researchers reports.Mars… [+3902 chars]
