Scientists using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) an international observatory co-operated by the US National Science Foundations National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) ha… [+7502 chars]
Neuroscientists at Goethe University, Frankfurt have discovered a feedback loop that modulates the receptivity of the auditory cortex to incoming acoustic signals when bats emit echolocation calls. I… [+4309 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 … [+6819 chars]
Phytoplankton need light and nutrients to grow. The microscopic algae rarely find both at the same time in sufficient quantities in the ocean. In the upper water layers, they usually lack nutrients, … [+5515 chars]
Dr. Rolly Chiasson is your Sky Guy. His astronomy column appears monthly in the Journal Pioneer. Hi Sky Guys, August is always a special month for me to write about, and its a special month for all… [+3893 chars]
NASA's Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere (PUNCH) mission will share a ride to space with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory's Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of … [+2891 chars]
Over 140 documents from notebooks and reports that feature first-person accounts of glacial landscapes from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries are now available to the public through the CU Digit… [+3603 chars]
As warming ocean temperatures threaten the existence of coral reefs, scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) have successfully used an extremely high-resolution computer sim… [+4305 chars]
<ul><li>Mammoth remains found in 2013 in New Mexico suggest humans settled in North America about 37,000 years ago.</li><li>The discovery means humans might have been in North America 20,000 years be… [+4951 chars]
Less than two years after shocking the science world with the discovery of a material capable of room-temperature superconductivity, a team of UNLV physicists has upped the ante once again by reprodu… [+4755 chars]
On Monday (Aug. 1), a group of eight researchers and their associates headed north to the high Arctic to spend a month at the Haughton-Mars Project (HMP) base on Devon Island, about 15 degrees south … [+4905 chars]
WASHINGTON The European Space Agency is ending efforts to restore operations of the Sentinel-1B radar imaging satellite that malfunctioned more than half a year ago and will instead move up the launc… [+4008 chars]
