How many of what kinds of stars live in other galaxies? It seems like a simple question, but its notoriously hard to pin down, because astronomers have such a difficult time estimating stellar popula… [+3227 chars]
An asteroid up to three times larger than a blue whale will zoom past Earth on Monday (June 6) at more than 16,000 mph (26,000 km/h),according to NASA (opens in new tab). The asteroid , named 202… [+2274 chars]
What if scientists could study human psychiatric illness in plants? Yale researchers think it's possible and they've taken an important first step. In a study published June 2 in Cellular and Molecul… [+4915 chars]
Solving societal problems such as climate change could require dismantling rigid academic boundaries, so that researchers from varying disciplines could work together collaborativelythrough an "undis… [+4580 chars]
Zoom/ Small samples of Hypatia stone next to a small coin. Rare Type Ia supernovae are some of the most energetic events in the universe. Researchers have found a consistent pattern of 15 elements in… [+3033 chars]
A new study conducted found that heavy farm machines have the same impact on soil compaction as the dinosaurs who stomped on the soil millions of years ago. Soil compaction is the result of too much … [+1745 chars]
A team of researchers at Harvard University, has developed a way to create ultracold polyatomic molecules by trapping and cooling them in three dimensions. In their paper published in the journal Nat… [+2534 chars]
Do you remember the first time you saw a creature and thought, I may never see this kind of creature again? I remember seeing Scottish wildcats at a wildlife center when I was a kid and being told … [+6647 chars]
NASA's CAPSTONE mission, which would examine a never-studied-before orbit of the Moon, has suffered its first delay. In the latest update, Rocket Lab, which is providing the launch vehicle for CAPSTO… [+2426 chars]
The Lethbridge Astronomy Society, along with multiple local partners, have come together to create a new, to-scale model of the solar system. It's only the second one of its kind in Canada. Accor… [+2662 chars]
Beta diversity is a measure of site-to-site variation in the composition of species within a certain area. A new study led by Washington University in St. Louis has found that tree beta diversity mat… [+2820 chars]
Researchers from the Institute of Theoretical Physics (ITP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU) have found that granular matter (such as sand) and some b… [+2791 chars]
