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]
Photo credit: Twilight Zone Expedition Team 2007, NOAA-OE., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Sponges are outliers in biologys big bang, the Cambrian explosion. Their embryos appear in Precambri… [+8991 chars]
Look to the west-northwestern sky shortly after sunset on Wednesday (Aug. 3) to catch a glimpse of Mercury shining close to Leo's "heart," its brightest star Regulus. The pair will be close enough … [+2051 chars]
A giant explosion has erupted on the solar surface, making a new and active region that sent a solar storm hurtling towards Earth. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) forecasters h… [+1624 chars]
New Zealand has a research ticket to work on the International Space Station. The country partnered with commercial research company Axiom Space on July 28 to fly experiments on future missions with… [+3193 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 an… [+5472 chars]
First attempts at visual acuity testing by optotypes Opticians realized earlier than ophthalmologists, that texts and their distance from the eyes were important for prescribing good glasses [30,31,… [+18091 chars]
A pair of researchers, one with the Max Planck Institute of Brain Research, the other with Imperial College, has found more efficient ways to mix two fluids using simulations run on a supercomputer. … [+2912 chars]
ByNew Zealand Herald Scientists have been left baffled after discovering the Earth is spinning faster than normal – making days shorter than usual. New measurements by the UK’s National Physical La… [+3826 chars]
The Space Launch System will take off from the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida, USA. You must have watched Shaun the Sheep, a popular animated character. During our childhood, the show had us comple… [+2335 chars]
Using single calcite crystals with varying surface roughness allows engineers to simplify the complex physics that describes fault movement. In a new study from the University of Illinois Urbana-Cham… [+3596 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]
