Never-ending fields, towering dunes, and irregular ridges on Io could be formed by winds and lava flowing under a crust of sulfur dioxide ice. A study published on April 19, 2022, in Nature Communica… [+1216 chars]
May 3 2022Reviewed by Alex Smith According to a new study, there was a period of accelerated global climate change in an ice-capped world about 304 million years ago, similar to the present. In just… [+4638 chars]
Wealth inequality is a research topic typically reserved for humans. Now, research from the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln suggests that studying wealt… [+7599 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… [+6110 chars]
asteroid: A rocky object in orbit around the sun. Most asteroids orbit in a region that falls between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. Astronomers refer to this region as the asteroid belt. atmospher… [+9339 chars]
The interacting galaxy pair NGC 1512 and NGC 1510 take center stage in this image from the Dark ... [+] Energy Camera, a state-of-the art wide-field imager on the Víctor M. Blanco 4-meter Telescope a… [+2773 chars]
Enlarge/ NASA Administrator Bill Nelson is seen in firing room four during the launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the company's Crew Dragon spacecraft on the Crew-4 mission in April. 181 wi… [+4620 chars]
Accumulation of salicylic acid (SA) and jasmonates in poplar after infection with a virulent rust fungus, Melampsora larici-populina. (a, b) Concentrations of SA and its glucoside (SAG) in poplar lea… [+8540 chars]
This network of long grooves and scratches forms part of a giant fault system on Mars known as Tantalus Fossae, and is shown here as seen by ESA's Mars Express. At first glance, these features look a… [+3656 chars]
May 3 2022Reviewed by Alex Smith The ability of a forest to regenerate after droughts, wildfires or other disturbances is largely dependent on seed production. The findings of two recent investigati… [+5434 chars]
Low-cost "tree fitbits" can pinpoint the precise timing of tree activities, like spring bloom or autumn leaf change, according to a new CU Boulder study. Researchers outfitted two East Boulder ash tr… [+3821 chars]
A newly published study by researchers at the University of Hawaii at Mnoa revealed that bacteria alter their swimming patterns when they get into tight spacesmaking a beeline to escape from confinem… [+3157 chars]
