Rice is one of the most important staple crops, on which more than half of the world's population depends. But as temperatures rise and extreme weather events increase, rice is becoming more vulnerab… [+4066 chars]
What makes the Earth habitable? There are multiple factors, yet most relate to a single aspect of our world: it orbits the sun at just the proper distance. Every star is surrounded by a region called… [+4199 chars]
From afar, the Sun appears blank and featureless in visible light. But through a solar telescope in different wavelength, it is revealed to be much, much more. In extreme ultraviolet light, the Sun … [+5079 chars]
One look at this stunning new image and you're likely to repeat the immortal words of "2001: A Space Odyssey's" astronaut Dave Bowman as he enters the mysterious black monolith… "My god, it's full of… [+2172 chars]
While staring at a multi-colored image of four overlapping clouds in the constellation Cygnus, a northern constellation on the plane of the Milky Way, Astronomy Professor Dan Clemens thought he saw a… [+3485 chars]
In 1977, the Big Ear Radio Telescope at Ohio State University picked up a strong narrowband signal from space. The signal was a continuous radio wave that was strong in intensity and frequency and ha… [+12308 chars]
George Long, a graduate student of bioinformatics at McMaster, is the lead author of a study that identified and reconstructed the first ancient genome of E. coli using fragments extracted from the g… [+4014 chars]
<li>Gray, R. D., Drummond, A. J. & Greenhill, S. J. Language phylogenies reveal expansion pulses and pauses in Pacific Settlement. Science323, 479483, https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1166858 (200… [+24393 chars]
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Researchers at McMaster University have developed a new form of rapid test to detect infections in farm animals, responding to the rising threat of dangerous outbreaks. Th… [+3748 chars]
Astronomers studying the structure of the Milky Way galaxy have released the highest-resolution 3D view of the Orion star-forming region. The image and interactive figure were presented today at a pr… [+5295 chars]
How Did The First Galaxies Form? The universe is filled with over a hundred billion individual galaxies. Most of the stars and planets in the universe are contained within galaxies. They come in a … [+4804 chars]
What makes the Earth habitable? There are multiple factors, yet most relate to a single aspect of our world: it orbits the sun at just the proper distance. Every star is surrounded by a region called… [+4199 chars]
