[ad_1] The photo, taken as part of a new mission titled Beyond Ultra-Deep Frontier Fields and Inherited Observations (BUFFALO), features a massive galaxy called Abell 370, located at 5 billion miles from …
Read More »NASA's Space Surveillance Laser is ready for launch on Saturday
[ad_1] Illustration of NASA's ICESat-2 satellite artist in orbit. The launch of the satellite is scheduled for September 15, 2018, from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. Credit: NASA A NASA spacecraft, …
Read More »In our opinion, we could not have become modern humans if our ancestors had not lost this gene.
[ad_1] Ohio State University We humans are the products of evolution. About two or three million years ago, after the functional loss of a single gene, a number of major changes occurred …
Read More »Just a piece of plastic enough to kill a turtle, CSIRO finds
[ad_1] The researchers found that once a turtle had eaten a piece of plastic, it had a 22% chance of dying and, according to the study published in Scientific Reports, the risk …
Read More »Boss's revenge, auto-colonoscopy studies win 2018 Ig Nobels
[ad_1] BOSTON (AP) – Anyone who's ever been so mad at his boss that he wants revenge really needs to listen to Lindie Liang. Liang and her colleagues found that abusing a …
Read More »Wounded killer whale declared dead on the Pacific coast
[ad_1] (SEATTLE) – Efforts to find a young orca sick in a critically endangered population of killer whales in the Pacific Northwest were empty Thursday, and a scientist who tracked the animals …
Read More »A sick killer whale declared dead, but the federal government continues to search
[ad_1] Efforts to find a young killer whale in a critically endangered population of killer whales in the Pacific Northwest were unsuccessful on Thursday, and a scientist who tracked the animals declared …
Read More »According to Neil DeGrasse Tyson, asteroids threaten more than hostile E.T.
[ad_1] <div _ngcontent-c16 = "" innerhtml = " In a large-scale interview about the publication of his latest book, astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson explained to me why we have not been back …
Read More »Cassini's latest photo of Titan unveils the methane seas and lakes of Saturn's largest moon
[ad_1] On the occasion of the first anniversary of Cassini's grand finale, JPL shares the latest Titan photo taken by the spacecraft en route to Saturn. Four days before Cassini's epic dive …
Read More »The notion of making a Noah's genetic ark involves a staggering 66,000 species
[ad_1] A global consortium of more than 50 institutions has launched an ambitious project to bring together optimistic sequences of the genome of sixty-six thousand vertebrate species on Earth, in collaboration with …
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