Roughly 560 million years ago, the first striated muscular system appeared in the cnidarian ancestor of jellyfish and corals. Haootia quadriformis, which lived anchored to the sea floor, likely used its new muscle fibers to grasp food, an…
The Moon is now a few days into the new cycle, so there is plenty to see when you look up in the sky tonight.
As of Friday, Dec. 26, the moon phase is Waxing…
Mirror photo by Colette Costlow /
Glendale science teacher Ethan Maneval points to the lightbulb in the center of the projector system in the Glendale Junior Senior High School planetarium.
FLINTON — Each year, Glendale Junior Senior High School…
By Christine Siddoway, Colorado College; Anna Ruth (Ruthie) Halberstadt, The University of Texas at Austin, and Keiji Horikawa, University of Toyama
Due to its thick, vast ice sheet, Antarctica appears to be a single, continuous landmass centered…
The Moon is now a few days into the new cycle, so there is plenty to see when you look up in the sky tonight.
As of Friday, Dec. 26, the moon phase is Waxing…
by Riko Seibo
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Dec 26, 2025
Researchers from Beijing Institute of Technology, China Academy of Space Technology, and the Chinese Academy of Sciences have developed a theoretical model that links electrostatic…
by Clarence Oxford
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 26, 2025
NASA engineers continue attempts to regain contact with the MAVEN Mars orbiter, which last communicated with Earth on Dec. 6. Working with the Deep Space Network, the team is…
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Niethamer, T. K. et al. Defining the role of pulmonary endothelial cell heterogeneity in the…
At morning twilight on December 13, 2025 (Hawaii-Aleutian Standard Time, HAST), the Faint Object Camera and Spectrograph (FOCAS) mounted on the Subaru Telescope captured images of comet ATLAS (3I/ATLAS; C/2025 N1), which is known to be an…