Visual aids and other strategies make it possible to interview young autistic people with intellectual disability or other communication challenges and to draw out valuable responses for research pur… [+831 chars]
Red medusa found just off the bottom of the deep sea in Alaska. Credit: Hidden Ocean 2005/NOAA Continental movement is capable of throttling marine oxygen. A previously overlooked factor the positi… [+4982 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]
After three years of design and construction, a monthlong boat ride across the Pacific Ocean, and a lift from a 30-ton crane, the customized test chamber for NASA's upcoming SPHEREx mission has final… [+5082 chars]
On August 17, 2017 , scientists made a discovery that rocked the world of physics: they directly observed two neutron stars slamming into each other. Formed in the collapse of a massive star, when … [+5013 chars]
Placeholder while article actions load NEW YORK Todays sharks have nothing on their ancient cousins. A giant shark that roamed the oceans millions of years ago could have devoured a creature the siz… [+2456 chars]
She was dead tired but couldnt sleep, couldnt think straight, and could barely walk. The muscle pain in her arms and legs was so bad that she spent days in bed. When she did get up, she used a wheelc… [+2872 chars]
The harder you hit somethinga ball, a walnut, a geodethe more likely it is to break open. Or, if it does not break open, it's more likely to at least lose a little bit of its structural integrity, th… [+3242 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]
Researchers in Argentina have discovered remains of a tiny, herbivorous dinosaur with protective spikes, suggesting the group it belongs to lived in a much wider area than originally thought. The di… [+2258 chars]
A newly remastered image of the black hole at the heart of the galaxy Messier 87 (M87) peels back the layers of the black hole to reveal photons flung around by the object's tremendous gravitational … [+4536 chars]
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