Brittle stars can learn just fine — even without a brain
DURHAM, N.C. -- We humans are fixated on big brains as a proxy for smarts. But headless animals called brittle ...
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Building blocks for life could have formed near new stars and planets
While life on Earth is relatively new, geologically speaking, the ingredients that combined to form it might be much older ...
Dwarf galaxies use 10-million-year quiet period to churn out stars
Contact: Morgan Sherburne, morganls@umich.edu Images ANN ARBOR—If you look at massive galaxies teeming with stars, you might be forgiven in ...
Astronomers discover signs of life in a star’s explosive death
**Strictly embargoed until 16:00 (BST) Wednesday 15 November 2023** Scientists have observed a series of bright, brief flashes occurring months ...
Written in the stars: WVU astrophysicists set to receive Shaw Prize, the ‘Nobel of the East’
For Duncan Lorimer and Maura McLaughlin, working at the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico set off a sequence of life ...
Exploding stars
When massive stars or other stellar objects explode in the Earth's cosmic neighborhood, ejected debris can also reach our solar ...
Long presumed to have no heads at all, sea stars may be nothing but
For centuries, naturalists have puzzled over what might constitute the head of a sea star, commonly called a “starfish.” When ...
Webb observes the glowing embers of colliding neutron stars
Gamma-ray bursts are brief flashes of the most energetic form of light, reaching us from the distant Universe. They have ...
Partnership looks to the stars to improve cybersecurity
A new partnership between Edith Cowan University (ECU), observation data company QL Space, and University of South Wales (UK) ...
Heat-tolerant predatory sea stars will likely be a threat to coral during climate change
Population outbreaks of the crown-of-thorns sea star (COTS), a predator of coral, can cause widespread coral mortality. COTS are herbivorous ...
Signatures of the Space Age: Spacecraft metals left in the wake of humanity’s path to the stars
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – The Space Age is leaving fingerprints on one of the most remote parts of the planet ...
Dead stars cast long shadows: WVU astronomer hunts for the glowing ghosts of supernovas
A West Virginia University astronomer is searching the Milky Way for debris left behind by supernovas, the violent explosions that ...
Direct evidence for modified gravity at low acceleration from Gaia observations of wide binary stars
A new study reports conclusive evidence for the breakdown of standard gravity in the low acceleration limit from a verifiable ...
Twinkling of giant stars reveals how their innards churn in first-ever simulations
Secrets hide in the twinkling of stars. Credit: E.H. Anders et al./Nature Astronomy 2023 Secrets hide in the twinkling of ...
Webb snaps highly detailed infrared image of actively forming stars
Young stars are rambunctious! Credit: Credits: Image: NASA, ESA, CSA. Image Processing: Joseph DePasquale (STScI) Young stars are rambunctious! ...
James Webb Telescope catches glimpse of possible first-ever ‘dark stars’
Stars beam brightly out of the darkness of space thanks to fusion, atoms melding together and releasing energy. But what ...
When the stars align: Astronomers find answers to mysterious action of ghost stars in our Galaxy
A collaboration of scientists from The University of Manchester and the University of Hong Kong have found a source for ...
Webb celebrates first year of science with close-up on birth of sun-like stars
From our cosmic backyard in the solar system to distant galaxies near the dawn of time, NASA’s James Webb Space ...
Scientists use exotic stars to tune into hum from cosmic symphony
Astrophysicists using large radio telescopes to observe a collection of cosmic clocks in our Galaxy have found evidence for gravitational ...
Planet orbiting 2 stars discovered using new technique
COLUMBUS, Ohio – An international team of astronomers is the first to apply an old technique to discover a new ...
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Fungus from Arrakis: New species named after Dune’s giant worms
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Null results research now published by major behavioral medicine journal
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New chemistry can extract virgin-grade materials from wind turbine blades in one process
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Scientists discover rare 6-planet system that moves in strange synchrony
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Acer i-Seed: the first eco-friendly fluorescent artificial seed for monitoring soil temperature by using drones
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Durable plastic pollution easily, cleanly degrades with new catalyst