It's only a matter of time before someone is killed by falling space junk. The toll taken by space debris so far includes an Indonesian livestock pen's fence crushed by a stray fuel tank, a house in… [+10420 chars]
Enlarge/ Atop Falcon 9, CRS-25 lifts off on Friday night. Zooming in, you can see mosquitos dotted throughout the frame, backlit by the rocket exhaust. 46 with 36 posters participating With little … [+3533 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 c… [+3461 chars]
Particles can move as waves along different paths at the same timethis is one of the most important findings of quantum physics. A particularly impressive example is the neutron interferometer: neutr… [+5929 chars]
Fortunella Swingle (Rutaceae) is an evergreen shrub or small tree distributed in Southeast Asia. China has the most abundant distribution of this genus, and all species are concentrated in China. The… [+3325 chars]
The CHIME Radio Telescope Andre Renard, Dunlap Institute of Astronomy & Astrophysics, U of Toronto/CHIME Astronomers at McGill University, MIT and elsewhere have detected a strange and persiste… [+3526 chars]
<li>Zancolli, G. & Casewell, N. R. Venom systems as models for studying the origin and regulation of evolutionary novelties. Mol. Biol. Evol.37, 27772790 (2020). CAS PubMed Article Googl… [+22540 chars]
In the evolutionary arms race between rattlesnakes and their prey, rodents, birds and other reptiles develop resistance to the snakes' deadly venom to survive. But new research led by the University … [+5760 chars]
Using "single molecule magnetic tweezers," the researchers measured intracellular mechanical forces (< 10 pN) and experimented with them in the lab so they could determine what happens to talin wh… [+863 chars]
