PHYSICS
New study shows mysterious solar particle blasts can devastate the ozone layer, bathing Earth in radiation for years
Credit: Harrison Haines from Pexels The remarkable aurora in early May this year demonstrated the power that solar storms can ...
Research intern helps discover a new pulsar buried in a mountain of data
VLITE 340 MHz image of GLIMPSE-C01 from February 27, 2021. The clean beam is shown as a white ellipse in ...
Genetic patterns of world’s farmed, domesticated foxes revealed via historical deep-dive
Credit: Anna Kukekova, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Domesticated animals play a prominent role in our society, with two-thirds of American ...
Researchers train sheep to complete awake MRI imaging
A group of sheep. Credit: INRAE – Sophie Normant Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a technique commonly used to explore ...
Wild bats found to possess high cognitive abilities previously considered exclusive to humans
Fruit bat. Credit: Yuval Barkai Researchers at Tel Aviv University have tracked free-ranging Egyptian fruit bats from a colony based ...
Research shows Darwin and Wallace both right on butterfly evolution
Birdwing butterflies of the Troides haliphron species group, in which females (right) were observed to be more visibly diverse than ...
Sixty-million-year-old grape seeds reveal how the death of the dinosaurs may have paved the way for grapes to spread
Lithouva – the earliest fossil grape from the Western Hemisphere, ~60 million years old from Colombia. Top figure shows fossil ...
Ultrafast laser enables 2D material manipulation for next-gen devices
Some 2D materials such as graphene, silicene (different from silicone), black phosphorus, and transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) are electrically and ...
Tiny bright objects discovered at dawn of universe baffle scientists
Researchers investigated three mysterious objects in the early universe. Shown here are their color images, composited from three NIRCam filter ...
NASA’s Mars Odyssey orbiter captures huge volcano, nears 100,000 orbits
This infographic highlights just how much data and how many images NASA’s 2001 Mars Odyssey orbiter has collected in its ...
