Science

  One of the ongoing puzzles in astronomy is that very few solar systems that we’ve examined to date look anything like ours. It’s common, for example, for solar systems to have so-called Hot Jupiters, planets the size of Jupiter that circle their host stars at a closer distance than …

  NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) is orbiting the Earth to search for alien worlds, but it spotted something much different recently. NASA says TESS observed a rare phenomenon known as a “tidal disruption event.” As TESS watched from a safe distance, a star spiraled toward a black hole …

An international team of biologists has isolated eight species of nematodes from the arsenic-rich sediments of Mono Lake in the Eastern Sierras of California. One species, temporarily dubbed Auanema sp., is new to science, culturable, has three different sexes, carries its young inside its body like a kangaroo, and can …

  It was just this year that we got our first real look at a black hole, and it matched many of the theoretical predictions that came before the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) project made history. An impressive new NASA simulation shows us what that black hole might look like …

A team of scientists from King’s College London, University College London and the University of Manchester has identified 44 genes linked to age-related hearing loss. Wells et al performed genome-wide association studies for two self-reported hearing phenotypes, using more than 250,000 UK Biobank volunteers aged between 40 and 69 years. …

  We’ve always looked to the stars for answers, but in our modern era, we’re actually able to find some of them.  Learning more about the universe has led us to ask a lot of new questions about the nature of reality, space, time, and our existence.  While the biggest …

Increasing nut consumption by just half a serving (14 g) a day may help mitigate the gradual weight gain common during adulthood, and beneficially contribute to the prevention of obesity, according to a new study in the journal BMJ Nutrition, Prevention Health. Increasing daily consumption of nuts is associated with …

  Today, Venus and Earth don’t have a lot in common other than being about the same size and orbiting the same star. Venus has crushing atmospheric pressure and a surface temperature hot enough to melt lead. However, Venus might have been more Earth-like in the past. New simulations from …

Archaeologists have actually discovered traces of ruminant milk on ceramic recuperated from Neolithic websites in Europe. Bronze Age child containers. Photo credit report: Enver-Hirsch, Wien Museum.” Possible baby feeding vessels initially show up in Europe in the Neolithic (around 5,000 BCE), ending up being extra typical throughout the Bronze and …

Nova Southeastern University’s Professor Jose Lopez and his colleagues from the University of California Davis and the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro propose a major revision in current space exploration philosophy and planetary protection policy, especially regarding microbes in space. Potential trajectory for how terraforming, PIPs and other related …