A new study found hundreds of newfound microbes in melting glaciers, some of which could potentially be pathogenic. (Image credit: Shutterstock) (opens in new tab)Stunned scientists have uncovered m… [+5239 chars]
PARIS - Astronauts lose decades' worth of bone mass in space that many do not recover even after a year back on Earth, researchers said Thursday, warning that it could be a "big concern" for future m… [+3301 chars]
Adriana Ariza-Pardo at Bahía Balleneros, Deception Island. Adriana Ariza-Pardo Colombian geoscientist Adriana Ariza-Pardo is delving into the origins of a sunken, active volcano that also serves a… [+4003 chars]
Emiliano Bruner, a paleoneurologist at the Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana (CENIEH), has led a study published in the journal Intelligence on how attention evolved in the h… [+3016 chars]
Part of a gene is better than none when identifying a species of microbe. But for Rice University computer scientists, part was not nearly enough in their pursuit of a program to identify all the spe… [+5165 chars]
Curiosity is continuing to proceed through our pre-planned checklist of activities that we’ve made for drill campaigns. The team is currently waiting for the downlink that contains data from CheMin’s… [+1801 chars]
Only the hardiest organisms can thrive in one of the coldest springs on earth. Thats why in the summers of 2017 and 2019, Lyle Whyte took a helicopter to Lost Hammer Spring in the unpopulated High Ar… [+3328 chars]
Researchers from the Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy have investigated the existence of nearby small galaxies by exploring the gas clouds. As soon as the findings from this study were publi… [+3345 chars]
<li>Rheinemann, L. & Sundquist, W. I. Virus budding. Encyclopedia of Virologyhttps://doi.org/10.1016/b978-0-12-814515-9.00023-0 (2021). </li><li>Brown, R. S., Wan, J. J. & Kielian, M. The al… [+9657 chars]
Aquilaria sinensis (family Thymelaeaceae) is the principal source of Chinese agarwood. It is a vulnerable evergreen tree native to lowland forests in southern China. Its fruit matures during the June… [+3084 chars]
A team of MIT researchers is investigating a radical method for countering the effects of climate change, a press statement reveals. They propose to use a fleet of "space bubbles" to reflect sunligh… [+3298 chars]
Photoacoustic imaging generates ultrasound waves by irradiating biological tissues with pulses or modulated continuous lasers. Ultrasound sensors are used to capture ultrasound signals in a distribut… [+4138 chars]