Newswise — Woods Hole, Mass. (August 2, 2022) --Weddell seals, which are excellent divers, provide so much iron to their pups during lactation, that the mothers dramatically limit their own diving an… [+8062 chars]
Using the Very Large Telescope (VLT), an international team of astronomers has conducted a spectroscopic study of a young open cluster NGC 3293. Results of the research, published July 26 on the arXi… [+3564 chars]
Today's VIS image shows several unnamed channels located in northern Arabia Terra. Channels in this region of Arabia Terra are flowing northward into the lower elevations of Acidalia Planitia. Orbit… [+813 chars]
A new study in Science Advances led by UMBC's Tianle Yuan used satellite data from 2003 -- 2020 to determine the effect of fuel regulations on pollution from cargo ships. The research team's data rev… [+5760 chars]
Landslides are one striking example of erosion. When the bonds that hold particles of dirt and rock together are overwhelmed by a force often in the form of water sufficient to pull the rock and soil… [+5453 chars]
Deep in northern Ecuador’s dense, humid cloud forests, at the very tip of a single frond of a single fern, the population of one of the world’s rarest frogs was poised to increase—hopefully. Photogr… [+3340 chars]
Science & Exploration02/08/20222456 views39 likes The specially trained woolly astronaut, Shaun the Sheep, has been assigned a seat on the Artemis I mission to the Moon. Shauns assignment was an… [+3135 chars]
Scientists at Stanford University have developed a new solution for the challenge of making sure that when carbon dioxide (CO2) is injected underground, it actually stays put. For decades, climate m… [+6609 chars]
Sampling the radiation To understand the phylogenetic relationships between Alpine whitefish, we carried out whole-genome resequencing on 96 previously collected whitefish (with associated phenotypi… [+25365 chars]
A site where 37,000 years ago a mother mammoth and her calf met their end offers some of the best evidence for humans settling in North America much earlier than conventionally thought. Bones from t… [+4843 chars]
If there were such a thing as an underwater freak show, then this would be it. Scientists from the Natural History Museum (NHM) in London have discovered a mysterious menagerie of marine megafauna de… [+4020 chars]
New brain mechanisms linked to rats impulsive cocaine craving have been discovered by National Institutes of Health researchers. The discovery could pave the way for treating substance use disorders… [+5439 chars]