Tag: spots

Using NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory, which launched in 2004, scientists have discovered a black hole in a distant galaxy repeatedly ...

FAMU-FSU College of Engineering researchers want Floridians to be prepared when the next pandemic or hurricane hits the state. A ...

Smoking and firearms are among the leading causes of avoidable premature death in the United States. In 2021, 480,000 deaths ...

Losing long-lasting flockmates may drive a golden-crowned sparrow to stray from its favorite overwintering spot, a new study says, suggesting ...

An international team of astronomers has drawn a temperature map of the dust drifting within one of the oldest spiral ...

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Researchers observing with NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have pinpointed silicate cloud features in a distant planet’s atmosphere. The atmosphere ...

A new scientific study by researchers from the University of Liège (Belgium) shows that rivers in the Andean mountains contribute ...

Rivers play a key role in the transport of plastic in the environment. "As soon as plastic enters a river, ...

Mutations can be good and bad. Sometimes they help an organism adapt and survive. Other times they are so harmful that ...

Woods Hole, MA (September 7, 2022) – A new study led by scientists at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) and University ...

A new "resilience sensing system" can identify ecosystems that are in danger of collapse, research shows. Credit: Toby Pennington A ...

NEW YORK (July 6, 2022) – Conservationists have conducted the first comprehensive review of national laws across the range of ...

Astronomers discovered a rocket body heading toward a lunar collision late last year. Impact occurred March 4, with NASA's Lunar ...

Banana peels hold the key to reducing tonnes of food waste. A new study released in Physical Biology reveals how the browning of this ...

The greatest cricket batsman – Sir Donald Bradman – used a batting technique that fans loved, but some critics slammed. ...

Seagrasses form lush green meadows in many coastal areas around the world. These marine plants are one of the most ...

With a fortuitous lineup of a massive cluster of galaxies, astronomers from among other institutes the University of Copenhagen and ...

For the first time, NASA’s Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER) has observed the merging of multimillion-degree X-ray spots on ...

Credit: Image credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, J. Dalcanton, Dark Energy Survey, U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), Fermilab (FNAL), Dark Energy ...