Several evolutionary paths can lead to a supernova explosion. One is the death of a supermassive star. When a supermassive star runs out of its hydrogen fuel, it begins a… Read More »Hubble Spotlights a Supernova – NASA Science
Reimer, J. D. et al. Coral Reefs https://doi.org/10.1007/s00338-024-02504-w (2024). Article Google Scholar Nogrady, B. Nature https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-024-01151-z (2024). Article Google Scholar Hughes, T. P. et al. Nature 543, 373–377 (2017). Article … Read More »Coral giants sound the alarm for the Great Barrier Reef
In 2021, a man in his 50s was transferred to the intensive care unit at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta. He was in septic shock due to a bacterial infection… Read More »Scientists have found a secret ‘switch’ that lets bacteria resist antibiotics — and it’s been evading lab tests for decades
Virgin Galactic has revealed the design for its Delta class spaceship. The suborbital space tourism firm posted a video on Wednesday (Aug. 7) showcasing an animation of the Delta design,… Read More »Get a sneak peek at Virgin Galactic’s new Delta class space plane (video)
NASA’s Scientific Balloon Program has kicked off its annual fall balloon campaign at the agency’s balloon launch facility in Fort Sumner, New Mexico. Eight balloon flights carrying scientific experiments and… Read More »NASA to Launch 8 Scientific Balloons From New Mexico
Most species of bacteria can be broadly divided into two groups, known as gram-positive and gram-negative. These categories reflect big differences in the microbes’ biology, and they also dictate how… Read More »What’s the difference between gram-positive and gram-negative bacteria?
Breast cancer cells (artificially coloured) are more likely to spread from tumours that include more nerve fibres than from those with fewer such fibres.Credit: SPL The sorts of nerve that… Read More »Breast-cancer cells enlist nerves to spread throughout the body
Scientists have proposed an interesting approach to increase the temperature of Mars, Earth’s planetary neighbour, by introducing engineered particles into its atmosphere. These particles, similar in size to commercial glitter… Read More »Why are scientists planning to warm up Mars and how will they do it?
You’ve reached mile 20 (kilometer 32) of your marathon and suddenly a wave of exhaustion crashes over you, making you feel dizzy and causing your legs to feel like lead.… Read More »What happens when you ‘hit the wall’?
A prolific NASA asteroid-hunting mission has come to an end. Engineers sent a final command to the agency’s NEOWISE (Near-Earth Object Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer) spacecraft on Thursday (Aug. 8),… Read More »NASA shuts down NEOWISE asteroid hunter after almost 15 years in space
Research astrophysicist Regina Caputo puzzles out how the universe works by studying the most extreme events in the cosmos. Name: Regina CaputoTitle: Research Astrophysicist Organization: Astroparticle Physics Laboratory (Code 661) What… Read More »Regina Caputo Charts the Future of High-Energy Astrophysics
The advent of antibiotics turned many once life-threatening diseases into mild illnesses. Unfortunately, bacteria reproduce rapidly and adapt new gene sequences easily, making them well equipped to evolve resistance to… Read More »10 of the deadliest superbugs that scientists are worried about
Download this podcast. AIs built on Large Language Models have wowed by producing particularly fluent text. However, their ability to do this is limited in many languages. As the data… Read More »ChatGPT has a language problem — but science can fix it
Antibiotic resistance is one of the biggest global health challenges. Our most potent antibiotics become less effective as bacteria mutate and develop new defense strategies against these drugs. So, how… Read More »How fast can antibiotic resistance evolve?
We only have seven more days to wait until director Fede Alvarez’s highly-anticipated sequel “Alien: Romulus” makes us once again scream in outer space. The film will introduce us to… Read More »‘Alien: Romulus’ is just 1 week away. Watch 2 new terrifying clips to get ready (video)
Recently, teams with NASA’s Exploration Ground Systems (EGS) Program at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center met with engineering teams at a central Florida amusement park to share knowledge on a… Read More »NASA Teams Change Brakes to Keep Artemis Crew Safe
Extreme Climate Survey Science News is collecting reader questions about how to navigate our planet’s changing climate. What do you want to know about extreme heat and how it can… Read More »Zigzag walls could help buildings beat the heat
Google’s DeepMind can control a robotic arm to beat mere mortals at table tennis, a new study reports. But Fan Zhendong, the 2024 gold medalist for individual and team men’s… Read More »Google DeepMind can beat humans at table tennis
Analysis of more than 200 protein in blood provides clues to risk of death and more than a dozen chronic diseases associated with ageing.Credit: Vo Trung Dung/Look At Sciences/Science Photo… Read More »Blood test uses ‘protein clock’ to predict risk of Alzheimer’s and other diseases
NASA’s only space telescope dedicated to planetary defense has turned off its transmitter for the last time, ending its 15-year career detecting near-Earth asteroids and comets. The spacecraft — named… Read More »NASA shuts down down asteroid-hunting NEOWISE telescope as the sun drags it to its doom
SpaceX has vetted its newest Starship megarocket ahead of its upcoming test flight, the company says. Starship, the biggest and most powerful rocket ever built, consists of two fully reusable… Read More »Starship is ready for its 5th test flight, SpaceX says
By Jessica Barnett From Earth, one might be tempted to view the Sun as a unique celestial object like no other, as it’s the star our home planet orbits and… Read More »A ‘FURST’ of its Kind: Sounding Rocket Mission to Study Sun as a Star
On August 8, the Japanese Meteorological Agency issued its first-ever “megaquake alert,” after a magnitude 7.1 earthquake rocked the Miyazaki prefecture in southern Japan earlier that day. The Miyazaki quake… Read More »Why Japan issued its first-ever mega-earthquake alert
It’s exceedingly rare, but some patients with the deadly neurological disease amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) eventually recover — and now, scientists know why. “More research needs to be done for… Read More »Some people recover from ALS — now, we might know why
Omitting journal names in your CV could help to prioritize the quality of your science over the prestige of the publication.Credit: Nature Can you name the journal in which microbiologist… Read More »Why I’ve removed journal titles from the papers on my CV
Women with cancer in one breast have the option to have both breasts removed, as a precaution. However, new research finds that these patients are no less likely to die… Read More »Double mastectomies don’t increase cancer survival, study suggests
With due respect to “Futurama,” one of Hulu’s funniest adult animated shows over the past few years has been “Solar Opposites” and its wacky gang of marooned aliens on our… Read More »Watch an exclusive clip from Hulu’s ‘Solar Opposites’ Season 5 (video)
NASA astronaut Don Pettit is available for limited interview opportunities beginning at 10 a.m. EDT, Friday, Aug. 16, to discuss his upcoming mission to the International Space Station in September.… Read More »NASA Hosts Astronaut Don Pettit Prelaunch Interviews
Meteorologist Thea Sandmael watched the storm close in. It was near enough for her to spot a rotating dome of clouds emerging from its dark underbelly — the quickening of… Read More »Squall line tornadoes are sneaky, dangerous and difficult to forecast
For decades, scientists have been puzzled by a mysterious type of antibiotic resistance. Called “heteroresistance,” it occurs when a tiny fraction of bacteria in a population can evade antibiotics, and… Read More »Bacteria that switch antibiotic resistance on and off are going undetected. Microbiologist Karin Hjort is on a mission to find out how they do it.
Three years after the Taliban seized power in Afghanistan, some five million people have left the country, including many of the country’s scientists. Nature spoke to a handful of these… Read More »The Taliban ‘took my life’ — scientists who fled takeover speak out
BENGALURU: New findings published by researchers from the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) in the journal Langmuir highlight how the fluid environments bacteria encounter can significantly impact their physiology and… Read More »Fluid dynamics impact bacteria’s disease-causing ability: IISc study
In the animal kingdom, predators rely on their cunning to capture prey. From inescapable traps to deceptive lures, here are some of the animals with the most crafty ways of… Read More »10 crafty ways animals hunt their prey
Scratch one grub! Xbox recently announced the next title in the Gears of War series, Gears of War: E-Day. The upcoming prequel, which is being described as this series’ Halo:… Read More »Gears of War games in order: Chronological and release date
Peering inside the biological nano-universe: Barbora Špačková on unveiling individual molecules moving in real time – Physics World Skip to main content Close search menu Discover more from Physics World… Read More »Barbora Špačková on unveiling individual molecules moving in real time – Physics World
In this clip, engineers are testing the the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope’s Deployable Aperture Cover. This component is responsible for keeping light out of the telescope barrel. It will… Read More »NASA Tests Deployment of Roman Space Telescope’s ‘Visor’
Inside the bland, brick-and-steel Building 34 at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in suburban Maryland, scientists are about to run a series of tests that will have profound results.… Read More »Inside Scientists’ Quest to Find the Secrets of Life in Four Grams of Asteroid Dust
Chocolate, cheese and migraines — Science News, August 10, 1974 A new study of migraine and food ingestion … is reported in the July 26 Nature. [Scientists] studied a group of migraine… Read More »50 years ago, scientists blamed migraines on cheese and chocolate
Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems could slowly trend toward filling the internet with incomprehensible nonsense, new research has warned. AI models such as GPT-4, which powers ChatGPT, or Claude 3 Opus… Read More »AI models trained on AI-generated data could spiral into unintelligible nonsense, scientists warn
They’re so quiet when they crawl down the street. But you still know. Some forgotten sense, some warning unneeded for millennia, starts to tingle. A one-tonne MakeBelieve.com spider crawls down… Read More »How much would you pay for free shipping?