Evidence left at the crime scene is abundant and global: Fossil remains show that sometime around 252 million years ago, about 90 percent...
Monday, 31 August 2015
Saturday, 29 August 2015
"A Billion Miles Beyond Pluto" -- NASA New Horizons to Probe Unexplored Kuiper Belt Objects
NASA has selected the potential next destination for the New Horizons mission to visit after its historic July 14 flyby of the Pluto system....
Friday, 28 August 2015
Quasar Nearest to Earth Harbors Two Supermassive Black Holes
Astrophysicists have found two supermassive black holes in Markarian 231, the nearest quasar to Earth, using observations from NASA's Hubble...
Cosmic Collision Triggers Rebirth of a "Radio Phoenix"
Astronomers have found evidence for a faded electron cloud "coming back to life," much like the mythical phoenix, after two galaxy clusters...
Thursday, 27 August 2015
Cosmic Oases --"Did Life Cross the Vast Gulf of Interstellar Space Long Ago?"
We only have one example of a planet with life: Earth. But within the next generation, it should become possible to detect signs of life...
"Metamorphosis" --The Evolution of Galaxies: The Basic Building Block of the Observable Universe
A team of international scientists has shown for the first time that galaxies can change their structure over the course of their lifetime....
Wednesday, 26 August 2015
Image of the Day --The Spectacular Core of the Twin Jet Nebula
The shimmering colors visible in this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image show off the remarkable complexity of the Twin Jet Nebula. The...
"Staggering" --Exploring the Limits of What Life Might Be Like in the Universe
Bizarre creatures that go years without water. Others that can survive the vacuum of open space. Some of the most unusual organisms found...
Tuesday, 25 August 2015
"Robot Scientist" to Search for Laws of Nature That Underlie the Universe
Everything that is changing around and within us - from the relatively simple motion of celestial bodies, to weather and complex biological...
Monday, 24 August 2015
New Insights Into "Snowball Earth" --"The Most Extreme Climatic Conditions Ever Known"
The second ice age during the Cryogenian period was not followed by the sudden and chaotic melting-back of the ice as previously thought,...
Apollo Mission "Volcanic Fire Eruption" Mystery --Solved?
Tiny beads of volcanic glass found on the lunar surface during the Apollo missions are a sign that fire fountain eruptions took place...
Glacial Retreat During Last Ice Age --"Caused by Greenhouse Gases"
A recalculation of the dates at which boulders were uncovered by melting glaciers at the end of the last Ice Age has conclusively shown...
ExoMolecules on Other Worlds --"Could Fulfill Roles of DNA and RNA" (Weekend Feature)
Here on warm, watery Earth, the molecules DNA and RNA serve as the blueprints of life, containing creatures’ genetic instruction manuals. An...
Beyond the Quantum --"Will the Discovery of Dark Matter Revolutionize Our World?"
Physicists suggest a new way to look for dark matter: they believe that dark matter particles annihilate into so-called dark radiation when...
New Research Asks: "Is Dark Energy a Hidden 5th Force?"
Dark energy is hiding in our midst in the form of hypothetical particles called “chameleons,” Holger Müller and his team at UC Berkeley plan...
Confirmed! Discovery of Cosmic Neutrinos from Beyond Our Galaxy
Researchers using the IceCube Neutrino Observatory have sorted through the billions of subatomic particles...
Saturday, 22 August 2015
Beyond the Quantum --"Will the Discovery of Dark Matter Revolutionize Our World?"
Physicists suggest a new way to look for dark matter: they believe that dark matter particles annihilate into so-called dark radiation when...
Friday, 21 August 2015
New Research Asks: "Is Dark Energy a Hidden 5th Force?"
Dark energy is hiding in our midst in the form of hypothetical particles called “chameleons,” Holger Müller and his team at UC Berkeley plan...
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