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]
The images released from the James Webb Space Telescope on July 12 will be the deepest view of the universe ever taken, and some scientists say they’ve been brought to tears by the photographs. NAS… [+2118 chars]
A new fossil galaxy, which was uncovered via a systematic visual search of legacy survey images using the Mayall 4-meter telescope, led by Dr. David Martinez Delgado, could teach scientists about how… [+2059 chars]
NASA’s recent discoveries leave everyone speechless. One of the latter relates to one Private cloud over the Caspian Sea in the period of May. This discovery provides an interesting starting point in… [+2711 chars]
How do you count the nanoplastics in your body? Leiden researchers published a method in Nature Protocols today that should make this easier, and important development for both environmental and medi… [+2551 chars]
It was the appearance of sea urchins from their hiding spots, not an increase in the urchin population, which caused a spectacular outbreak of kelp-eating sea urchins along California’s Central Coast… [+4988 chars]
The Higgs boson is the fundamental force-carrying particle of the Higgs field, which is responsible for granting other particles their mass. This field was first proposed in the mid-sixties by Peter … [+11193 chars]
Anyone who reads even a little about science and technology will be familiar by now with the idea of genome sequencing. This process involves breaking an organisms DNA into fragments to study their c… [+5338 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… [+5104 chars]
An international team of researchers, led by scientists at the University of Manchester, has developed a fast and economical method of converting methane, or natural gas, into liquid methanol at ambi… [+7434 chars]
On Mars Scientists search for amino acids like pirates hunt for gold. Finding these chemical molecules would be considered a potential sign of alien life. But a new study suggests that there likel… [+5149 chars]
In a sweltering tropical rainforest on an island in the middle of the Indian Ocean, I started to appreciate why archaeologists and anthropologists had long ignored jungles in their search for humanit… [+25183 chars]
