Coral reefs are home to a spectacular variety of fish. A new study shows that much of this diversity is driven by a recent innovation among bony fish feeding by biting prey from surfaces. Teleosts … [+2151 chars]
During cell division, chromosomes are replicated into two copiesone for each daughter cell. These copies, called sister chromatids, are usually considered identical. In fact, it's the two pairs of si… [+6185 chars]
NASA has altered the Mars Sample Return Program meant to bring back the rock samples the Perseverance rover has been drilling and collecting from the Jezero crater in a big way. Instead of sending th… [+2582 chars]
Using the VLT Survey Telescope (VST), European astronomers have investigated a peculiar star cluster in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), known as KMHK 1762. Results of the study were published July … [+3231 chars]
A team of researchers from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Tennessee Technological University have created a 2D, open-source flood inundation model designed for a multiar… [+4381 chars]
RS Puppis, a particularly bright Cepheid variable star, imaged by the Hubble space telescope in 2010. Image: ESA, NASA, STScI/AURA <ul><li>Henrietta Swan Leavitt was one of the Harvard computers a t… [+6012 chars]
Body temperature is a basic indicator of health. Intracellular temperature is also a basic indicator of cellular health; cancer cells are more metabolically active, and thus can have a slightly highe… [+3220 chars]
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Recent research published in Scientific Reports demonstrates that the differential equation model of four-wave mixing in a nonlinear Schrödinger optical fiber system can be extracted via data-driven … [+5595 chars]
NASA and the Psyche team declined interview requests until an independent review of the mission delay has been completed. Agency officials will make a decision about next steps based on that review i… [+3332 chars]
Water is an essential ingredient in transforming primitive mantle-derived rocks into buoyant continental crust, thereby driving the irreversible differentiation of Earth’s lithosphere. A new Curtin … [+2260 chars]
The use of hyperspectral data in remote sensing of water color is crucial. A team of researchers developed a 1-D denoising method for hyperspectral water data based on sparse representation, accordin… [+5573 chars]
