In the vacuum of space, you can't hear much, but NASA recently revealed that black holes emit noises that sound like ghostly alien moans and wails. In a post on Monday, NASA's Twitter account for it… [+2264 chars]
<li>Flombaum, P. et al. Present and future global distributions of the marine Cyanobacteria Prochlorococcus and Synechococcus. PNAS110, 98249829 (2013). ADS CAS PubMed PubMed Central Art… [+22812 chars]
Settlements on the Moon have a certain poetic appeal, but scientists have long understood the complications required to achieve this goal. Lack of oxygen, cosmic radiation, and temperature extremes a… [+4799 chars]
NEW YORK — Every second we’re alive, we’re moving through time. How people perceive the “flow of time” is from the past to the present to the future, moving in one direction like an arrow. Scientists… [+2891 chars]
A tiny robot known as MIRA will be blasting off to the International Space Station (ISS) in 2024 to perform simulated surgical procedures in microgravity. MIRA, or "Miniaturized in vivo Robotic Assi… [+2076 chars]
Along the murky bottom of the Amazon River, serpentine fish called electric eels scour the gloom for unwary frogs or other small prey. When one swims by, the fish unleash two 600-volt pulses of elect… [+4979 chars]
The first mutation of the wingless gene was found by accident in Drosophila in the 1970s, following the observation of flies that did not possess wings, hence its name. Fifteen years after its discov… [+3540 chars]
It’s difficult to study neutron stars. They are light years away and only about 20 kilometers across. They are also made of the most dense material in the universe. So dense that atomic nuclei merge … [+3681 chars]
Lasers are everywhere. Devices that use them transmit information and enable the existence of long-distance communications and the internet; they aid doctors performing surgeries and engineers manufa… [+5268 chars]
An algorithm is presented for the simulation of reactiondiffusion systems on complex geometries, providing insight on how the interplay of cell geometry and biochemistry can control polarity in livin… [+3366 chars]
A team of researchers at Iowa State University has found that it may be possible to grow alfalfa successfully on Mars. The group has written a paper describing their work and have published it on the… [+2860 chars]
Fans of astrophotography are currently feasting thanks to the James Webb Space Telescope, but Hubble isn’t ready to be forgotten yet. Its latest capture is a gorgeous glittering star cluster in the c… [+2522 chars]
