NASA's Perseverance rover has captured a mysterious, stringlike material on the surface of Mars. Turns out – it was likely just trash discarded there by the rover itself. In a blog post last week b… [+1664 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]
The arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis (AMS) is one of the most ancient and broadly occurring mutualistic associations between plants and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF). This intimate relationship … [+2481 chars]
Sneezing seems to be as old as life itself, or at least, as old as multicellular life. Image credits Niklas A. Kornder et al., (2022), Current Biology. Sea sponges are some of the most ancient for… [+3262 chars]
image: Group photo of participants in the XXXI IAU General Assembly, which was held from 2-11 August in Busan, Korea.view more Credit: IAU/GA2022 NOC The XXXI General Assembly of the International… [+6313 chars]
Since 1997, the edge of Antarctica's ice sheet has lost about 12 trillion metric tons of ice, according to a NASA-led study based on satellite imagery published Wednesday in the journal Nature. That … [+4706 chars]
image: When fiddler crabs burrow into mangrove soils, they help to distribute nutrients and beneficial bacteria throughout the soil, as well as positively impacting soil salinity and pH.view more C… [+3375 chars]
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Orbital debris from a Russian anti-satellite weapons test is menacing the Starlink satellite constellation, with researchers reporting more than 6,000 close calls with the SpaceX satellites. The ne… [+2860 chars]
Bacteria use a variety of defense strategies to fight off viral infection, and some of these systems have led to groundbreaking technologies, such as CRISPR-based gene-editing. Scientists predict the… [+6210 chars]
In a recent study submitted to Earth and Planetary Astrophysics, a team of researchers from Yale University investigated how to identify impact craters that may have been created by Interstellar Obje… [+3384 chars]
Dusty, star-forming galaxies that existed a billion years after the Big Bang could be masquerading as the record-breaking galaxies discovered by NASA's new space telescope that have been thought to d… [+6993 chars]
