Category: 7. Science

A colossal Antarctic iceberg that first broke free in the 1980s is now soaking up the summer warmth, and from orbit seems to be turning a shade of aquamarine. In this recent image from NASA’s Earth Observatory, iceberg A-23A is streaked with…

A robotic ocean float has collected the first-ever continuous measurements from beneath floating ice shelves in East Antarctica, shedding new light on how ocean heat may influence the stability of some of…

Combining data from different telescopes is one of the best ways to get a fuller picture of far-off objects. Because telescopes such as Hubble (visible light), the James Webb Space Telescope (infrared), and the Atacama Large Millimeter…

Astronomers with Hubble have spotted “Cloud‑9”, a ghostly, starless cloud of dark matter and hydrogen, a fossil relic from the dawn of galaxies. Found near the spiral galaxy M94, this rare “RELHIC” is the first confirmed glimpse of…

The James Webb Space Telescope’s view of the infant universe has delivered genuine surprises: bright galaxies, rapid star formation, and evidence of accreting black holes only a few hundred million years after the Big Bang. These findings…

Researchers at VIB and KU Leuven have identified a molecular process that allows motor neurons to maintain protein production, a process that fails in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). The study, published in Nature Neuroscience,…

When tissue is severely damaged, surviving cells can respond in a concentrated burst of biological repair known as compensatory proliferation. Nearly 50 years after this survival strategy was first identified in fly larvae, scientists have…

A collaborative team of researchers from the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, the University of Florida, Gainesville and University of Iowa have developed groundbreaking tools that allow grasses—including major grain crops like…