Enlarge/ A 3D paleoreconstruction of a sauropod dinosaur has revealed that the hind feet had a soft tissue pad beneath the "heel," cushioning the foot to absorb the animals immense weight. 10 with 1… [+3405 chars]
Title:3D Hydrodynamics of Pre-supernova Outbursts in Convective Red Supergiant Envelopes Authors: Benny T.-H. Tsang, Daniel Kasen, Lars Bildsten First Authors Institution: Department of Astronomy a… [+5518 chars]
In 2014, the first known meteor from outside of our Solar System crashed into the ocean near Papua New Guinea. It was one and a half feet wide, but broke up into smaller fragments. Scientists will at… [+2122 chars]
Australian scientists are confident they have unearthed strong evidence that the Earths continents were formed by the impact of massive meteorites more than 3 billion years ago. Their findings, publ… [+1708 chars]
Newswise — KINGSTON, R.I. – Aug. 10, 2022 – Over the next three years, three University of Rhode Island researchers are hoping to broaden the scientific understanding of methane emission dynamics in … [+7341 chars]
Asteroids coming close to Earth and whizzing past have been making the headlines recently. The trend continued as today, a blue whale-sized asteroid, dubbed Asteroid 2022 LG4 (NEO), will reportedly f… [+1493 chars]
The star Betelgeuse appears as a brilliant, ruby-red, twinkling spot of light in the upper right shoulder of the winter constellation Orion the Hunter. But when viewed close up, astronomers know it a… [+5815 chars]
A new study has corrected the work of Erwin Schrödinger after an error was found in the famed physicists 3D math that describes how eyes distinguish one color from another. A research team at Los Al… [+2442 chars]
A Northwestern University astrophysics team is aiming for the starswell, a dead star, that is. On Aug. 21, the NASA-funded team will launch its "Micro-X" rocket from White Sands Missile Range in sou… [+3922 chars]
The heart of the Etruscan shrew, one of the worlds smallest mammals, beats incredibly fast up to 1,500 times per minute, or 25 times per second. The human heart, in comparison, is sluggish, beating o… [+9855 chars]
This position will see the Sun, Earth and Saturn lining up, with the planet standing at a distance of 1.325 billion kilometres – the closest to the Earth for the first time in one year. Once the Sun… [+406 chars]
Earth and its Moon are unique in the Solar System. Earth is the only planet with just one moon, and that Moon is pretty influential. In fact, without the Moon, life on Earth may not have emerged, som… [+4363 chars]
