fake images The disembodied human tear glands that cry sound like something out of a science fiction movie. But in the Netherlands, functional tear glands that don’t stick to anyone’s eyes (or …
Read More »USU geologist examines ‘impressive’ Cold War relic with sinister implications
LOGAN – A Cold War relic unearthed during a secret military operation half a century ago under the Greenland ice sheet provided what scientists called “impressive” and potentially sinister information about the …
Read More »Adorable sleeping lemurs are teaching scientists the secrets of hibernation
Spring is coming to North America and scientists are quietly excited. Tiny dwarf lemurs are waking up after months of hibernation, the first time these thick-tailed furry animals have entered a long …
Read More »New Study Challenges Long-Standing Theory of the Fate of Mars Water – NASA Mars Exploration Program
The new scientific results indicate that a large amount of the Red Planet’s water is trapped in its crust rather than having escaped into space. Billions of years ago, according to geological …
Read More »Primordial rays may have helped life emerge on Earth
The appearance of the first living organisms on Earth billions of years ago may have been facilitated by lightning out of nowhere, or perhaps a trillion of them. Researchers said Tuesday that …
Read More »Drug-resistant fungus listed as “serious global health threat” discovered on remote island
A fungus described by the Centers for Disease Control and Protection (CDC) as a “serious threat to global health” has been found in various locations in nature. Candida auris It was first …
Read More »Human tear glands growing in a lab really cry
fake images The disembodied human tear glands that cry sound like something out of a science fiction movie. But in the Netherlands, functional tear glands that don’t stick to anyone’s eyes (or …
Read More »Meandering rivers create ‘counterpoint bars’ regardless of the underlying geology
Satellite images of the Mamoré River colored to illustrate changes in flow path and sediment deposition as dotted bars (red) and tailstock bars (blue). From 2005-2010, the river (dark blue) suffers a …
Read More »NASA’s Juno reveals the dark origins of one of Jupiter’s great light shows
This illustration shows polar ultraviolet auroras on Jupiter and Earth. Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / SwRI / UVS / STScI / MODIS / WIC / IMAGE / ULiège New results from NASA’s …
Read More »The interstellar object Oumuamua was part of a planet, not an alien spacecraft
The origin and identity of a massive space object that passed Earth in 2017 has been a mystery ever since. The object, called ‘Oumuamua – a Hawaiian name meaning “scout” or “messenger” …
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