An international team using China's FAST telescope---the world's largest single-dish radio telescope--has captured the first clear "surge and recovery" in a fast radio burst's magnetic environment, providing strong evidence that some FRBs originate from binar…
This Copernicus Sentinel-2 image over the South Atlantic Ocean features a close-up view of the A23a iceberg, once the world’s largest. The unusually cloud-free image shows the first signs that the iceberg will soon disintegrate completely.
Despite priding himself on understanding how to thrive as a middle-aged cyclist, Phil Cavell was perilously unaware of the 'shark' circling him – a heart condition hiding in plain sight
Science News: The Konya Basin in Central Anatolia, Turkey, is showing evidence of rapid ground sinking, while being part of a larger region that has been elevating .
The protein called intelectin-2 plays another important role by reinforcing the protective mucus layer that lines the digestive system. The body’s mucosal linings contain a range of protective molecules that help stop microbes from triggering inflammation or …
There’s an adage coined by [Ian Betteridge] that any headline ending in a question mark can be answered by the word “No”. However, Lorentz invariance – the theory that the same rules of physics app…
Spending time in the weightless environment of microgravity can have some dramatic effects on the human body, but scientists have recently discovered a new one that could help explain why some astronauts struggle to adjust after returning to Earth.
Researchers at Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT-Italian Institute of Technology) have developed an innovative microscopy technique capable of improving the observation of living cells. The study, published in Optics Letters, paves the way for a more in-de…
Wormholes are often imagined as tunnels through space or time—shortcuts across the universe. But this image rests on a misunderstanding of work by physicists Albert Einstein and Nathan Rosen.
Deep-sea sediment layers show rare microbial wrinkle structures that formed in environments far beyond the reach of sunlight. Dr. Rowan Martindale, a paleoecologist and geobiologist at the University of Texas at Austin, was hiking through Morocco’s Dadès Vall…
A hidden chunk of an ancient tectonic plate is stuck to the Pacific Ocean floor and sliding under North America, complicating earthquake risk at the Cascadia subduction zone.
This past summer, SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry (ESF) ecologist Molly Jacobson was out collecting specimens around ESF’s orchard in Syracuse, New York, when she stumbled on something amazing.
Environmental phenomena and their consequences can disrupt social structures and destabilize political systems. An interdisciplinary research team demonstrated this using the example of the late Tang dynasty in medieval China.
New photos show off NASA's newly constructed Roman Space Telescope, which will soon help researchers unravel the mysteries of the cosmos. Experts have also revealed when the next-gen spacecraft is set to launch and begin collecting data.