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]
The Polaris Dawn mission has a December launch target. Commander and billionaire tech entrepreneur Jared Isaacman, who will command the private Polaris Dawn mission on a SpaceX Dragon capsule, made … [+2890 chars]
Researchers at the University of Bristol and Scottish Universities Environmental Research Centre have discovered that super-eruptions occur when huge accumulations of magma deep in the Earth's crust,… [+2889 chars]
There are presently no effective treatments for chromophobe renal cell carcinoma, a rare type of kidney cancer. A novel treatment for a rare kind of kidney cancer has been uncovered. There are curr… [+1700 chars]
Newswise — The North Pacific Blob, a marine heatwave that began in late 2013 and continued through 2015, was the largest and longest-lasting marine heatwave on record. A new study using data collecte… [+4190 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]
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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]
Engineers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have repurposed a 19th-century photography technique to create an elastic material that changes color when it is stretched. The team ther… [+2626 chars]
The SpaceX Crew Dragon Resilience spacecraft is lifted onto the GO Navigator recovery ship after it ... [+] landed with NASA astronauts Mike Hopkins, Shannon Walker, and Victor Glover, and Japan Aero… [+2150 chars]
The colliding cluster Abell 3266 as seen across the electromagnetic spectrum, using data from ASKAP and the ATCA (red/orange/yellow colours), XMM-Newton (blue) and the Dark Energy Survey (background … [+6957 chars]
The hypothalamus is best known as the controller of hormone secretion to regulate essential bodily functions such as reproduction and feeding, and is one of the only brain structures to demonstrate a… [+10078 chars]
