ABOARD ‘SOLAR ONE’ ABOVE THE PACIFIC OCEAN — Scientists know how to party. Fueled by strong coffee and blue- and green-frosted doughnuts, a small army of astrophysicists, astronomers and planetary scientists cheered and applauded as “Solar One” — a special Alaska Airlines flight — launched to give them the world’s […]
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Using the most precise seafloor maps ever created of Antarctica’s Ross Sea, researchers have discovered a long-dead river system that once flowed beneath Antarctica’s ice and influenced how ice streams melted after Earth’s last ice age.
New research has identified small sequences in plant DNA that act as signposts for shutting off gene activity, directing the placement of proteins that silence gene expression.
View photos FILE – In this April 8, 2006 file photo, protesters stage a rally with an inflatable doll of dugong opposing the U.S. military base relocation in Okinawa, outside Japan’s defense agency in Tokyo. A federal appeals court has revived a lawsuit Monday Aug. 21, 2017, that seeks to […]
Researchers have revealed the existence of a new quorum-sensing molecule that increases the virulence of the pathogenic bacterium Pseudomonas aeruginosa.
The boxes of toy princess products and the bedrooms of children across this nation are covered in resplendent, striding unicorns. Well, according to real history, when it comes to unicorns, the fantasy world got the horn right and that’s about it. New research published in the American Journal of Applied […]
The moon is likely very dry in its interior according to a new study analyzing fragments of the ‘Rusty Rock,’ a rock collected from the moon’s surface during the Apollo 16 mission in 1972.
Tremendous amounts of soot, lofted into the air from global wildfires following a massive asteroid strike 66 million years ago, would have plunged Earth into darkness for nearly two years, new research finds. This would have shut down photosynthesis, drastically cooled the planet, and contributed to the mass extinction that […]