The Store Glacier in Western Greenland is one of the fastest moving glaciers in the world. When I say fast, I mean fast for a glacier. Store can move up to 20m per day.
Back in 2016, I visited Store as part of a documentary crew hoping film a…
Category: 7. Science
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Why supermassive black hole continues to belch matter years after chewing up a star
Scientists are observing the behaviour of a supermassive black hole that is displaying exceptionally messy eating habits.
Primarily using radio telescopes in New Mexico, in the United States, and South Africa, they are watching the black…
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Biofilms protect astronaut health during long space missions
Biofilms have emerged as a critical life-support system for long-duration spaceflight, shaping human and plant health rather than functioning solely as infection risks.
New research frames microbial films as part of the habitat itself, with…
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Antiparallel stacking of Csu pili drives Acinetobacter baumannii 3D biofilm assembly
Kostakioti, M., Hadjifrangiskou, M. & Hultgren, S. J. Bacterial biofilms: development, dispersal, and therapeutic strategies in the dawn of the postantibiotic era. Cold Spring Harb. Perspect. Med. 3, a010306 (2013).
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CDMMM: a comprehensive platform of traditional Indian medicinal plant DNA barcodes and metabolite fingerprints database
Pandey, M. M., Rastogi, S. & Rawat, A. K. S. Indian traditional ayurvedic system of medicine and nutritional supplementation. Evid. Based Complement. Alternat. Med. 2013, 376327. https://doi.org/10.1155/2013/376327 (2013).
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Chaotic origins of solar flares revealed in new observations
Solar flares don’t begin with a bang. They start small. In fact, until recently, scientists could barely see the early warning signs.
A new set of close-up observations of the Sun now shows that a massive solar flare can grow out of tiny…
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NASA Telescope Discovers Nearby Planet With Deep Similarities to Earth
Astronomers have discovered what appears to be an exoplanet that could be a distant Earthly paradise. Or it could be a frigid realm even chillier than Mars, incapable of supporting life.
The margins are very fine when studying planets outside our…
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NASA Telescope Discovers Nearby Planet With Deep Similarities to Earth
NASA/JPL-Caltech/Keith Miller (Caltech/IPAC) Astronomers have discovered what appears to be an exoplanet that could be a distant Earthly paradise. Or it could be a frigid realm even chillier than Mars, incapable…
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Scientists show how to narrow the hunt for merging giant black holes
Somewhere in the universe, enormous black holes are circling each other so slowly that their motion can’t be seen, photographed, or even sensed directly. Each of these objects outweighs our Sun by millions or billions of times, yet their final…
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