Can this turtle breathe through its "backdoor"? (Image credit: Shutterstock) Everyone knows that most mammals breathe through the mouth and nose. Frogs, meanwhile, can breathe through their skin. Bu… [+6737 chars]
What do UX Tauri, RW Aurigae, AS 205, Z CMajoris, and FU Orionis have in common? They’re young stellar systems with disks where planets could form. It appears those disks were disturbed by stellar fl… [+5820 chars]
Astronomers have observed the most massive known example of an object called a neutron star, one classified as a "black widow" that got particularly hefty by gobbling up most of the mass of a stellar… [+3404 chars]
KATOWICE, Poland — A 150-million-year-old marine invertebrate unearthed in Africa has been named after Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky. The bizarre creature had 10 long arms and sharp tentacle-l… [+3408 chars]
<li>Shanmugam, N. et al. Microbial functional amyloids serve diverse purposes for structure, adhesion and defence. Biophys. Rev.11, 287302 (2019). CAS PubMed PubMed Central Google Scholar … [+9887 chars]
Astronomers have observed the most massive known example of an object called a neutron star, one classified as a "black widow" that got particularly hefty by gobbling up most of the mass of a stellar… [+3404 chars]
Whenever we look up at a clear night sky, we can see a multitude of stars. From here on Earth, if you happen to be in an area with no light pollution, you can see upwards of 10,000 individual stars. … [+3406 chars]
By Pallab GhoshScience correspondent, La Palma Scientists have supercharged one of Earth's most powerful telescopes with new technology that will reveal how our galaxy formed in unprecedented detail… [+4057 chars]
The chance of someone being killed by space junk falling from the sky may seem ridiculously tiny. After all, nobody has yet died from such an accident, though there have been instances of injury and … [+6069 chars]
Scientists analysing data from #NASA's (@NASA) Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) spacecraft and computer modelling, have discovered shaded locations within pits on the Moon that always hover around … [+645 chars]
Lasers are useful for a lot of things. They made CDs work (when they were still a thing). They also provide hours of entertainment for cats (and their humans). But they can also create magnetic con… [+2473 chars]
After a report from a customer of strange prints on the restaurants floor, Chinese paleontologists were brought in to investigate, and they confirmed that the depressions had, in fact, been left by t… [+707 chars]
