A little-studied, underground layer of rock may provide a vital reservoir for trees, especially in times of drought, report scientists.
Daily Archives: February 27, 2018
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Researchers have developed a new innovative biosensing material for counting dividing cells and detecting biomolecules.
Research finds new promise for biofuels produced from switchgrass, a non-edible native grass that grows in many parts of North America.
A 5.5-million-year-old fossil species of turtle has been discovered in eastern Tennessee. The turtle represents a new species of the genus Trachemys, commonly known as sliders, which are frequently kept as pets today.
WASHINGTON — Fleet operator Viasat will soon challenge Hughes, Eutelsat, Hispasat, and others with satellite broadband businesses in Brazil thanks to a new agreement that will let the Carlsbad, California company use capacity on a Brazilian satellite. State-run Brazilian telecom company Telebras agreed to let Viasat use Ka-band capacity on […]
WASHINGTON — Hostilities are about to resume in the Republican civil war — this time, in Mississippi. State Sen. Chris McDaniel, a conservative who narrowly lost a primary challenge to U.S. Sen. Thad Cochran in 2014, will announce this week that he’s running against the state’s other Republican senator, Roger […]
Robert Esparza has had a front-row seat to the decline of unions in Texas. When he joined the Local 66 ironworkers chapter here out of high school, there were roughly 1,200 other members who would get close to 90 percent of the work in the region. Forty-one years later the […]
Humans will meet alien life forms within the next century, Michio Kaku, a theoretical physicist and futurist, predicted during a Reddit AMA last week. However, he isn’t quite sure whether this first encounter will be friendly. After being asked Thursday if he thought we would make contact with alien civilizations, […]