The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) restarted for the first time in three years almost two weeks ago. The LHC restarted on April 22nd after three years of maintenance, upgrades, and consolidation work. … [+1032 chars]
We all must play the game of life with the cards we're dealt, so the common aphorism goes. In biology, this means organisms must compete through natural selection with the genes and anatomy they were… [+6730 chars]
A newly published study by researchers at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa revealed that bacteria alter their swimming patterns when they get into tight spaces -- making a beeline to escape from co… [+2875 chars]
There are approximately 750 species of salamander known to science, a third of which reside in North America. Now, a team of researchers led by R. Alexander Pyron, the Robert F. Griggs Associate Prof… [+2775 chars]
image: Zach Putnam, professor in the Department of Aerospace Engineering, The Grainger College of Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaignview more Credit: University of Illinois Urbana… [+3913 chars]
Hot on the heels of the year's first solar eclipse — a partial eclipse on April 30 — a total lunar eclipse is on the horizon. Between the late evening of May 15 and the early morning of May 16, depe… [+2973 chars]
A team of MIT scientists is looking for black hole echoes in an effort to shed some light on the regions of spacetime that largely remain a mystery to us. See, black holes only show any semblance of … [+1860 chars]
<li>Boivin, N. L. et al. Ecological consequences of human niche construction: Examining long-term anthropogenic shaping of global species distributions. Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA113, 63886396 (2016).… [+24321 chars]
Word of an extraordinarily inexpensive material, lightweight enough to protect satellites against debris in the cold of outer space, cohesive enough to strengthen the walls of pressurized vessels exp… [+7205 chars]
NASA's Artemis endeavor might finally bring humanity back to the moon in 2025, revamping lunar exploration with enough vigor to match the Apollo years. Readying themselves for that future, Canadian o… [+2386 chars]
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) restarted for the first time in three years almost two weeks ago. The LHC restarted on April 22nd after three years of maintenance, upgrades, and consolidation work. … [+1032 chars]
Coral bleaching on the Great Barrier Reef during a mass bleaching event in 2017 (Getty) Coral bleaching due to climate change poses a threat to reefs around the world - but could it be reversed? A … [+2888 chars]
