<ul><li> Newly discovered blob-shaped structures are the biggest ones we’ve seen in Earth’s mantle so far.</li><li>Located low in the mantle layer, the blobs influence the motions of the mantle and… [+3112 chars]
A single-celled marine microbe capable of photosynthesis and hunting and eating prey may be a secret weapon in the battle against climate change. Scientists at the University of Technology Sydney (U… [+4205 chars]
The fact that global warming will increase temperatures over land masses, increasing the frequency of droughts and heat waves, is a certainty -- as is the fact that climate change will alter the aver… [+4881 chars]
Fluidic force microscopy (FluidFM) combines atomic force microscopy (AFM) with micro-channeled probes connected to a pressure controller that enables force-sensitive nanopipette experiments under aqu… [+8607 chars]
The race for space has quietly intensified in parallel with the geopolitical competition unfolding here on Earth. China, for example, has made great strides in its space programs and is looking to ta… [+6389 chars]
March 15, 2022 — When NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei launched into space 11 months ago, he did not know how long he would be off the planet, let alone that he would be up there long enough to set an… [+4100 chars]
Sign up for the Morning Brief, delivered weekdays. What do you get when you take the sun and divide its circumference by its diameter? Pi in the sky! The number pi, that is. It's March 14, or 3-14,… [+1007 chars]
Zoom/ Illustration of a swarm of small black holes in a gas disk orbiting a supermassive black hole. Samsing / Niels Bohr Institute In 2019, the LIGO/VIRGO collaboration picked up a gravitational w… [+2855 chars]
De-extinction is the process of resurrecting species that have died out or gone extinct. This seems to have provided some people an opportunity to expand diversity of species and bring back animals w… [+3189 chars]
image: Pictured is a continuously spouting cauldron of near-boiling water, one of a dozen spanning a 10-acre geothermal field at Mangra in southern Tibet. Helium-isotope geochemistry shows it sits ab… [+7027 chars]
As NASA's Parker Solar Probe completes its latest swing around the sun, it's doing so in full view of dozens of other spacecraft and ground-based telescopes. These powerful instruments can't actuall… [+3693 chars]
From sunflowers to starfish, symmetry appears everywhere in biology. This isn't just true for body plans -- the molecular machines keeping our cells alive are also strikingly symmetric. But why? Does… [+2498 chars]
