About 1.2 billion years ago a blue-green bacterium was engulfed by a more complex cell, transforming our planet and allowing a tremendous diversity of plant life to emerge and continue to evolve. Th… [+3696 chars]
Title:Microarcsecond Astrometry: Science Highlights from Gaia Authors: Anthony G. A. Brown First Authors Institution: Leiden Observatory, Leiden University Status: Published in Annual Review of As… [+7732 chars]
A deep dive into the 5,500 marine RNA virus species scientists recently identified has found that several may help drive carbon absorbed from the atmosphere to permanent storage on the ocean floor. … [+7060 chars]
While much of public attention on Yellowstone focuses on its potential to produce large supereruptions, the hazards that are much more likely to occur are smaller, violent hydrothermal explosions. Hy… [+4188 chars]
NASA's InSight lander successfully touched down on Mars on 26 November 2018. Seventy Martian days later, the seismometercalled SEISdeployed on the surface of Mars began recording the Red Planet's tre… [+7726 chars]
Paleontologists said on Thursday they have found parts of the skeleton of the dinosaur, which lived about 125 million years ago during the Cretaceous Period, including bones of the back, hips and tai… [+3172 chars]
Dear readers, Welcome to Quartzs newsletter on the economic possibilities of the extraterrestrial sphere. Please forward widely, and let me know what you think. This week: Building a new orbit, scru… [+6585 chars]
Fossilized bones discovered on a rocky seashore on England’s Isle of Wight are the remains of a meat-eating dinosaur that may be larger than any other known from Europe, a beast that was a cousin of … [+3207 chars]
Photo credit: Rama, CC BY-SA 2.0 FR , via Wikimedia Commons. We are used to thinking of data compression in connection with computers but a recent study with mice shows that brains compress data too… [+3877 chars]
A new study is providing an enhanced look at the intertwined evolutionary histories of polar bears and brown bears. Becoming separate species did not completely stop these animals from mating with e… [+6725 chars]
ByTechnische Universitat DarmstadtJune 9, 2022 Artists rendering showing the simulation of two merging neutron stars (left) and the emerging particle tracks that can be seen in a heavy-ion collision… [+3603 chars]
Newswise — Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) have refined the use of magnetic fields to improve the performance of doughnut-shaped fusion … [+4575 chars]
