Because chewing tougher food or in this case, tougher gum takes significantly more energy, these findings suggest that the metabolic costs of chewing may have played an important role in our evolutio… [+1283 chars]
It is common for young animals, in particular mammals, to play. Researchers at Linköping University (LiU) in Sweden have for the first time mapped the development of play in young chickens. The resul… [+2928 chars]
Salvia officinalis (S. officinalis), known as sage or common sage, and the Chinese sage (S. miltiorrhiza), or Danshen (red sage) in Chinese, belong to the family of Lamiaceae and have a long history … [+2504 chars]
A previously overlooked factorthe position of continentshelps fill Earth's oceans with life-supporting oxygen. Continental movement could ultimately have the opposite effect, killing most deep ocean … [+4676 chars]
How do we make medicine last the extreme conditions of space exploration? How would you manage a headache while flying to Mars? You might try the Earth remedy of taking a painkiller. But on a 2-yea… [+4647 chars]
Solar cells are pinned as one of the key sources of renewable energy; however, commercial options remain reliant upon silicon solar cells. In this interview, we speak with Professor Jacek Jasieniak a… [+11725 chars]
ByAmerican Institute of PhysicsAugust 17, 2022 Researchers have come up with a plasma-based way to produce and separate oxygen within the Martian environment. Converting carbon dioxide into oxygen … [+4722 chars]
Since it landed on Mars in 2021, NASA's Perseverance Rover has been pottering around the red planet, doing what Dad does at Costco: quietly hoovering up samples. And just like Dad does with those tas… [+1662 chars]
Trojan asteroids are space rocks that are locked into orbit near larger space objects such as planets. Two trojan asteroids are known to be orbiting near Earth, with one called 2020 XL5 having been c… [+1483 chars]
In 2006, Pluto was demoted from planet to dwarf planet. By changing what it means to be a planet, astronomers excluded Pluto and other small worlds from being defined as planets. Despite Plutos demot… [+2811 chars]
Depending on the perspective one chooses, a theoretical calculation can describe observed physics more or less accurately. Back in 2015, Alessandro Toschi from the Institute of Solid State Physics at… [+5158 chars]
The massive eruption of the Hunga TongaHunga Haapai volcano this January in Tonga, in the south Pacific Ocean, was the volcanic equivalent of a near miss asteroid whizzing by the Earth. The eruption … [+13624 chars]
