Category: 7. Science

This week, AAS Nova and Astrobites are attending the American Astronomical Society (AAS) winter meeting in Phoenix, AZ.

AAS Nova Editors Kerry Hensley and Susanna Kohler and AAS Media Fellow Lexi Gault will join Astrobites Media Intern…

Whenever I visited my grandmother, Laura, at her senior-living community, I felt like a celebrity. She seemed to know everyone, and was so loved — the folks there were all too happy to tell me so.

We often played…

A new Special Report published in the journal BioScience warns that long-term ecological and evolutionary research faces severe threats from lack of recurring funding and governmental/institutional support, to data manipulation and…

  The Conversation

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Galaxies might be separated by hundreds of thousands of light-years at the very least, but they do occasionally merge. During those collisions, the supermassive black holes that sit at the center of those galaxies can become active, entering a…

Moss is ancient. It evolved some 470 million years ago, long before the first dinosaur hatched. It is so rudimentary that it lacks both flowers and roots, yet it is an expert at survival. Now, that