The deep ice at Camp Century in northwest Greenland completely melted at least once in the last million years and was covered in vegetation, including moss and perhaps trees, according to an …
Read More »Oumuamua Space Oddity Likely a Piece of a Pluto-Like World, Scientists Say | Space
The first known interstellar visitor to our solar system is neither a comet nor an asteroid as was first suspected and looks nothing like a cigar. A new study says the mysterious …
Read More »First ‘cosmic web’ images reveal hidden dwarf galaxies
Cosmological models had long predicted the existence of filaments – gas in which galaxies are created – but no images of the phenomenon had been captured, except in the vicinity of quasars, …
Read More »Death enables the complexity of chemical evolution
The life cycle of complex and simpler replicators. Complex replicators are produced at a slower rate than simple replicators, but because they are more resistant to breakdown (‘death’), they can gain the …
Read More »Mars dust storms can cause a mysterious ‘zodiacal light’ in Earth’s night sky
NASA’s Juno spacecraft has detected interplanetary particles that suggest Martian storms fill the solar system with dust, causing a strange haze known as zodiacal light to be seen from Earth. Zodiacal light …
Read More »Mars rover sends back squeaks and squeaks of driving
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) – NASA’s new Mars rover has sent the first driving sounds on the red planet, a grinding, clanking, and thump that, by Earth standards, would be quite concerning. …
Read More »A new technique reveals the genes that underlie human evolution
A double-stranded DNA fragment. Credit: Vcpmartin / Wikimedia / CC BY-SA 4.0 One of the best ways to study human evolution is by comparing ourselves to non-human species that, evolutionarily speaking, are …
Read More »The collective movement of nanorobots observed in vivo
PET-CT images were obtained 0, 25 and 45 minutes after administration of the nanorobots in the presence of urea. Credit: Pedro Ramos, Cristina Simó / CIC biomaGUNE, IBEC, UAB Nanobots are machines …
Read More »Mars rover sends back squeaks and squeaks of driving
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) – NASA’s new Mars rover has sent the first driving sounds on the red planet, a grinding, clanking, and thump that, by Earth standards, would be quite concerning. …
Read More »This mouse embryo grew in an artificial uterus.
Scientists have succeeded in growing a mammalian embryo outside the uterus for the first time. In a study published Wednesday in Nature, a team of researchers from the Weizmann Institute of Science …
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