Every heartbeat, thought, and muscle contraction relies on the precise flow of ions across cellular membranes, confirming the body’s fundamental nature as an electrical organism. Recent…
A debris field comprised of a Starlink satellite’s remains is floating through space, after a minor explosion broke off pieces of the tech and sent them tumbling around Earth’s orbit.
A debris field comprised of a Starlink satellite’s remains is floating through space, after a minor explosion broke off pieces of the tech and sent them tumbling around Earth’s orbit.
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Physicists in the United States have built a small device that seems to pull electrical energy from Earth’s rotation itself. The tabletop experiment produced only tens of microvolts.
The team carried out the work in New Jersey with colleagues…
In a recent study, experts tracked evolution across 105 changing environments and found that repeated environmental change can yield very different outcomes.
The researchers found that studying a single population can be misleading, so claims…
A small tyrant dinosaur once written off as a teenaged T. rex has now been confirmed as its own species. That animal, called Nanotyrannus, turns out to represent not just one form but two closely related species.
Using an almost complete skeleton…
“Volcano Watch” is a weekly article and activity update written by US Geological Survey Hawaiian Volcano Observatory scientists and affiliates.
On Dec, 23, 2024, a unique eruption began in Kīlauea’s Halemaʻumaʻu crater, with a…