Following is a summary of current science news briefs. Variant that combines Delta and Omicron identified; dogs sniff out virus with high accuracy The following is a summary of some recent studies … [+2911 chars]
Recent publications in PLOS Climatehave highlighted how marine heatwaves are becoming the ‘new normal’, and the vulnerability of coral reef ecosystems to warming oceans. We spoke to the authors of a … [+3419 chars]
Its up, up and away for another SpaceX Starlink mission. At 5:45 this morning PST, a Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral in Florida, adding 48 new satellites to … [+1927 chars]
Two giant bubbles of gamma rays and X-rays that erupted from the center of the Milky Way may stem from a supermassive black hole's feeding frenzy at the heart of the galaxy, a new study finds. Recen… [+4087 chars]
A herd of antelope feeds peacefully on a meadow. Suddenly, a lion shows up, and the herd flees. But how do they manage to do so collectively? Konstanz physicist Chun-Jen Chen and Professor Clemens Be… [+4446 chars]
The Cambrian Explosion around 541 million years ago was when life and organisms really got going on planet Earth. Now new research has revealed how that explosion of life has left behind traces deep … [+3242 chars]
Parenting is not the only way moms and dads impact the behavior of their offspring. Genes matter, too. And although most of our genes are inherited in pairsone copy from each parentmoms and dads exer… [+5742 chars]
What happens to information after it has passed beyond the event horizon of a black hole? There have been suggestions that the geometry of wormholes might help us solve this vexing problem but the ma… [+3719 chars]
China's Yutu 2 rover, which has completed three years on the Moon, has beamed back an intriguing panoramic picture of its location. The rover had landed on the far side of the Moon in January 2019 at… [+1966 chars]
While it had been assumed that unstable gliding was the key to agility in bird flight, a collaboration between aerospace engineers at the University of Michigan and biologists at the University of Br… [+4964 chars]
Our planet is hit by around 17,000 meteorites every year, according to a study by the University of Manchester and Imperial College London published in Geology. But most of them disintegrate just af… [+2929 chars]
The Earth’s closest black hole isn’t a black hole at all. Instead, astronomers say it’s just a two-star system where one star is sucking the life out of the other. Earth’s closest black hole isn’t a… [+2741 chars]
