A visible light image of the Lagoon Nebula (aka Messier 8 or M8) with the bright star Herschel 36 at the center. NASA, ESA, and STScI On a clear summer night in the northern hemisphere you can go out to your backyard with a pair of binoculars and look towards the constellation […]
Scientists from Argonne National Laboratory and Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, along with collaborators from over 25 other institutions, are recreating a previous experiment with much higher precision. The original experiment measured the spin precession of the muon — i.e., the speed at which its spin changes direction — to be […]
Now, for the first time, scientists are inviting citizens to help in updating information about European river barriers with a newly-developed smartphone app. Credit: Katarzyna Susaka SSIFI Based on their first observations, they estimated an average of one barrier per kilometre of river. Clearly, the picture of river fragmentation in Europe is […]
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Less than eight months after Hurricane Harvey pelted the Texas Gulf Coast with torrential rainfall, drought has returned to Texas and other parts of the West, Southwest and Southeast, rekindling old worries for residents who dealt with earlier waves of dry spells and once again forcing […]
Artists impression of squeezing more power out of solar cells by physically deforming each of the crystals in the semiconductors used by photovoltaic cells. Credit: University of Warwick/Mark Garlick Physicists at the University of Warwick have today, Thursday 19th April 2018, published new research in the fournal Science today 19th April 2018 […]
Curiosity Mastcam image of the Old Soaker rock slab taken on Sol 1555. The red-toned bed is covered by ridges that are the remnants of sediment that filled cracks that formed in drying lake in Gale Crater some ~3.5 billion years ago. The slab is about 80 cm across. Credit: […]
Wild insects are the most important and vulnerable pollinators. Pollinators such as bumblebees and solitary bees have become endangered. Szefei / www.shutterstock.com Pollinating insects like bees, butterflies and flies have had a rough time of late. A broad library of evidence suggests there has been a widespread decline in their abundance and diversity […]
The red coral in the middle of this image is a staghorn coral, or A. millepora. Credit: Mikhail Matz Using genetic samples and computer simulations, evolutionary biologists have made a glass-half-full forecast: Corals in the Great Barrier Reef have enough genetic variation to adapt to and survive rising ocean temperatures for […]
Mount Io, which has erupted for the first time since 1768, may become more active, volcanologist Makoto Saito warns A volcano in southern Japan erupted for the first time in 250 years on Thursday, spewing steam and ash hundreds of metres into the air, as authorities warned locals not to […]
The ‘shark’ will soon gobble up La Niña’s cool surface waters. What might this mean for the climate later this year? A cross section of the equatorial Pacific Ocean showing how water temperature departed from average during the five-day period centered on 3 April 2018. The vertical axis shows depth below the […]