Plant growth in arid mangroves is often limited by a lack of precipitation, poor nutrient availability, and high soil salinity. Soil bacteria play a crucial role in processes that sustain plant growt… [+2763 chars]
Efficient phase separation in reduced gravitational environments is an obstacle for human space exploration and known since the first flights to space in the 1960s," said Dr. Katharina Brinkert of th… [+1804 chars]
Antarctica is situated almost entirely south of the Antarctic Circle and covers an area of 14.2 million km2. Described as a polar desert, the continent has an average annual precipitation of 166 mil… [+2973 chars]
The matter above the critical point, the supercritical matter, was not thought of as a distinct state of matter and instead seen as a homogeneous state intermediate to liquids and gases and lacking t… [+3856 chars]
Fossils of a small, prickly dinosaur recently discovered in South America may represent an entire lineage of armored dinosaurs previously unknown to science. The newly discovered species, Jakapil ka… [+3395 chars]
International scientists warn that the worlds largest ice sheet in Antarctica is losing ice much more quickly than they had thought. A recent study by Australian and other researchers described what… [+3394 chars]
The researchers believe that this discovery has wide-ranging implications for both neuroscience and artificial intelligence. The brain uses data compression while making decisions. If you grew up i… [+3912 chars]
Climate change is a real problem. Human caused outputs of greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide and methane are the main driver of an unprecedented rise in global average temperatures at a speed never… [+3857 chars]
Even though its impossible to see it, dark matter fills the universe. And now, it seems increasingly likely it always has. An international team from Japan used the Subaru Telescope at the controve… [+6020 chars]
When you look at a region of the sky where stars are born, you see a cloud of gas and dust and a bunch of stars. It’s really a beautiful sight. In most places, the stars all end up being about the sa… [+4164 chars]
One of the most beautiful and spectacular regions of the night sky can be found in the constellation of Orion. Between the stars Alnitak, Saif, and Rigel, floats a vast, thick cloud of interstellar … [+2382 chars]
Although floating in space could be enjoyable, a TBone study reveals that it is taxing on earthly bodies. According to a new study, six months in space is equivalent to decades of bone loss on Earth… [+4004 chars]
