I’m running on 3 hours of sleep, but I got these for you. #AuroraBorealis#NorthernLights#NBpic.twitter.com/UfL3XDZKym — Brad Perry (@bradjperry) July 8, 2022 On Thursday, July 7, 2022, photographs … [+2811 chars]
This image released by NASA on Tuesday, July 12, 2022, combined the capabilities of the James Webb Space Telescope's two cameras to create a never-before-seen view of a star-forming region in the Car… [+1884 chars]
What happens when a star wanders too close to a supermassive black hole? The obvious story is that it gets sucked in, never to be seen again. Some of its material gets superheated on the way in and t… [+4980 chars]
Some of the most infamous drivers of cancer are mutations in RAS genes, which lead to tumor growth in about a quarter of all cancer patients. Scientists at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard and … [+6581 chars]
Scientists had long wondered how woodpeckers can repeatedly pound their beaks against tree trunks without doing damage to their brains. This led to the notion that their skulls must act like shock-ab… [+3871 chars]
For the first time, researchers successfully sequenced the genome of ancient human fossils from the Late Pleistocene in southern China. The data, published July 14 in the journal Current Biology, sug… [+3924 chars]
Far out in the Milky Way, roughly 22,000 light years from Earth, a star unlike any other roars with a magnetic force that beats anything physicists have ever seen. At a whopping 1.6 billion Tesla, … [+3383 chars]
A novel three-dimensional model of the fluid stored deep in Earth's crust along the Cascadia Subduction Zone provides new insight into how the accumulation and release of those fluids may influence s… [+4698 chars]
An international team thinks it has managed to pinpoint which part of Mars a 4.5 billion year old meteorite found on Earth came from. The rock known as Black Beauty, or more prosaically NWA 7034 has… [+2637 chars]
While climate change is taking effect everywhere on Earth, the Arctic Circle is feeling those effects most of all, in the form of glacial melt, permafrost thaw and sea ice decline. Key players in cl… [+3692 chars]
An international team of astronomers has conducted an astrometric and photometric wide-field study of the open cluster Messier 37. As a result, the researchers completed a comprehensive catalog of mo… [+3844 chars]
In a world rife with opposing views, lets draw attention to something we can all agree on: if I show you my pen, and then hide it behind my back, my pen still exists even though you cant see it anymo… [+4268 chars]
