The rainbow of visible colors varies over a continuous range of wavelengths, but small songbirds called zebra finches (Taeniopygia guttata) break it into...
A swallowable gas-sensing capsule (about the size of a vitamin pill) developed by RMIT University, in collaboration with Monash University and Atmo Bioscience,...
Marking the anniversary of New Horizons’ historic flight through the Pluto system on July 14, 2015, NASA released high-resolution natural-color images...
Scientists from the University of Cambridge and the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, UK, have identified a group of exoplanets where the same chemical...
A new study led by SUNY University at Buffalo researcher Leah Panek-Shirley found that after drinking a small amount of caffeine, participants consumed...
Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) and the Northern Extended Millimeter Array (NOEMA) have made the first definitive...
Marine biologists have shown for the first time that corals can cooperate to catch and eat stinging jellyfish which are swept against the walls by sea...
A team of astronomers at Carl Sagan Institute, Cornell University, has produced a reference catalog of spectra and geometric albedos for 19 objects that...
There may be more habitable exoplanets than we previously thought, according to Pennsylvania State University researchers Bradford Foley and Andrew Smye,...
Dr. Bao-Zhong Wang of the Institute for Biomedical Sciences at Georgia State University and colleagues have developed an experimental nanoparticle vaccine...
On Mars, the atmospheric pressure is around 0.6% of Earth’s. Any liquid water on the surface would very quickly evaporate or freeze. One of the challenges...
By examining microscopic ice-blue crystals of mineral hibonite trapped inside a carbonaceous chondrite meteorite, an international team of scientists was...
Future missions to Mars and beyond will require innovative options to shelter explorers. NASA’s 3D-Printed Habitat Challenge, a Centennial Challenges...
Conditions favorable for gravitational wave-emitting mergers of massive black holes exist in the outer gas disks of big spiral galaxies, according to a...
NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has begun its search for planets around stars within 300 light-years of the Sun.
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A Middle Pleistocene cave bear, also known as the Deninger’s bear (Ursus deningeri), is generally regarded as the direct ancestor of the mostly vegetarian...
A new image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope demonstrates the immense effects of gravity; more specifically, it shows the effects of gravitational...
Toxoplasmosis, caused by the globally prevalent parasite Toxoplasma gondii, is one of the most common parasitic infections of man and other warm-blooded...
