Okay, that's pretty grim. Mass Extinction A new climate modeling study is offering an ominous glimpse into the future of pretty much every species on the planet, ScienceAlert reports. Scientists b… [+1722 chars]
The Universe is littered with galaxy clusters huge structures piled up at the intersections of the cosmic web. A single cluster can span millions of light-years across and be made up of hundreds, or … [+6178 chars]
Salt marshes are among the most vulnerable ecosystems on Earth. Because they only occur within narrowly defined elevation ranges relative to sea level, they are at increased risk from rapid rise in s… [+1920 chars]
Bacteria and other unicellular organisms developed sophisticated ways to actively navigate their way, despite being comparably simple structures. To reveal these mechanisms, researchers from the Max … [+3968 chars]
In a study published in the journal Genome Research, investigators in UC San Diego's Department of Computer Science and Engineering and Johns Hopkins University have illuminated the immunoglobulin (a… [+3768 chars]
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Engineers at Caltech have developed a switchone of the most fundamental components of computingusing optical, rather than electronic, components. The development could aid efforts to achieve ultrafas… [+4299 chars]
A special bonding state between atoms has been created in the laboratory for the first time: With a laser beam, atoms can be polarized so that they are positively charged on one side and negatively c… [+4226 chars]
Source: Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets The ice giants, Uranus and Neptune, are the least understood planets in the solar system. They remain the only worlds that an orbital spacecraft has … [+2751 chars]
Tricks of the light aside, for a celestial body to be seen during the day, it has to outshine the sun. Not many objects can outshine our main sequence star in its own system. A few supernovas have be… [+6956 chars]
Image shows the 48,000-light-year-long stretch of the Andromeda galaxy. American space agency NASA on Sunday shared the "largest-ever" image assembled of the Andromeda galaxy by the Hubble Space Tel… [+1904 chars]
The Pillars of Creation are among the most well-known objects in our galaxy. They were one of the most popular targets for the Hubble Space Telescope, with the first images taken shortly after Hubble… [+2052 chars]
