Enlarge/ A translucent "helmet" on the bigclaw snapping shrimps head shelters its brain from the shock waves generated by its claw-snapping. 6 with 6 posters participating The tiny-but-mighty pisto… [+6091 chars]
Scientists have warned that if a passing star moves Neptunes orbit by just 0.1 per cent, the resulting chaos could cause the other planets in our solar system to collide. The research, presented in … [+1692 chars]
The Carina nebula is a turbulent cloud of gas, dust about 7,600 light-years from here, a birthplace and graveyard for some of the Milky Ways hottest and most massive stars. The nebula is home to som… [+775 chars]
NASA has announced the winners of its annual Photographer of the Year competition. From meditative portraits of astronauts through to rockets ready to rock, the contest pays tribute to the space agen… [+330 chars]
Purple sea urchins are munching their way through California's kelp forests at a speed and scale that have stunned scientists, fishermen and divers alike. But the kelp forests have long been home to … [+7742 chars]
The current cosmological model only works by postulating the existence of dark matter a substance that has never been detected, but that is supposed to constitute 75% of the universe. But a simple te… [+14086 chars]
Enlarge/ A translucent "helmet" on the bigclaw snapping shrimps head shelters its brain from the shock waves generated by its claw-snapping. 6 with 6 posters participating The tiny-but-mighty pisto… [+6091 chars]
Neutron stars have the strongest magnetic fields in the universe, and the only way to measure their surface magnetic field directly is to observe the cyclotron absorption lines in their X-ray energy … [+5842 chars]
Our DNA is packed into our nucleus pretty damn tightly. Each chromosome is one looong DNA molecule wrapped around proteins called histones, like a very tiny thread on very tiny spools. But sperm put… [+2486 chars]
Vid Japanese scientists are putting a new spin on human life in outer space with a proposal for centrifugal skyscrapers on the Moon and Mars. Kyoto University academics and folks at Kajima Construct… [+2965 chars]
5 with 5 posters participating Behavior that we'd consider intelligent is oddly widespread in the animal kingdom. Animals with very different brains from oursa species of octopus and various birdsen… [+5674 chars]
5 with 5 posters participating Behavior that we'd consider intelligent is oddly widespread in the animal kingdom. Animals with very different brains from oursa species of octopus and various birdsen… [+5674 chars]
