Photo by National Cancer Institute on Unsplash Whales are not known to particularly prone to cancer while mice and humans are. This is a paradox if you think about it. Cancer, as we know, arises f… [+135 chars]
Widely believed by astronomers, the principle of mediocrity states that the properties and evolution of the solar system are not unusual in any important way. New research from CU Boulder- led by CU … [+3033 chars]
Spacecraft studying Earth's magnetosphere collectively observed how solar particles reach the upper atmosphere and create glowing auroral beads in the night sky. (Image credit: ESA/ATG medialab) A c… [+3866 chars]
Patricia Gregg, a geology professor, and her colleagues had just built up a new volcano forecasting modeling software on the Blue Waters and iForge supercomputers in the fall of 2017. Another crew w… [+4060 chars]
A team of astronomers in Japan, for the first time, discovered a faint radio emission covering a giant galaxy as a result of achieving high imaging dynamic range. Radio emission is emitted by the gas… [+2830 chars]
The lightning protection system at NASA's Kennedy Space Center Launch Pad 39B recently intercepted the most powerful lightning strike ever recorded at the spaceport. When this event occurred, the age… [+1739 chars]
Pigs that are reared in an alternative housing system with environmental enrichment, delayed weaning, and with group housing during lactation, seem to be more resilient than pigs kept under conventio… [+1911 chars]
Voyager 1 is the farthest human-made object from Earth. After sweeping by Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune, it is now almost 15 billion miles (24 billion kilometers) from Earth in interstellar … [+5780 chars]
Pigs that are reared in an alternative housing system with environmental enrichment, delayed weaning, and with group housing during lactation, seem to be more resilient than pigs kept under conventio… [+1911 chars]
Scientists have discovered that an ultra-reactive chemical in Earth’s atmosphere lasts much longer than we previously believed. In fact, they believe that millions of tons of the chemical could linge… [+2534 chars]
In a first, scientists have discovered a faint radio emission covering a giant galaxy with an energetic black hole at its centre. The discovery, made by using high contrast imaging, was made by a t… [+1852 chars]
Over 100 astronomers from around the world, including from NASA, took part in an exercise to test their operational readiness for large asteroids that could pose a hazard to the Earth in future. The… [+1876 chars]
