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Researchers have discovered a new species of the mysterious deep-sea isopod Bathonymus in the famous underwater crater. Called Bathonymus yucatanensis, or B. yucatanensis for short, these crustaceans dwell in the deepest part of the ocean called the the ...

Onur Apul, an assistant professor of environmental engineering at University of Maine, will lead a $1.1 million multi-institutional investigation backed by NASA to explore whether nanobubbles can support space exploration, including water treatment on ...

The timing will be bad for anyone trying to view the annual Perseid meteor shower, which is scheduled to reach its peak overnight Thursday and overnight Friday — the same two days the moon will be full. As a result, the bright moonlight will cut down on ...

For many, these new findings — coupled with the severe heat we've been experiencing around the world and the extreme flooding in Kentucky and Missouri — are triggering feelings of climate anxiety.

The Event Horizon Telescope, in collaboration with two other radio-telescope arrays, has imaged the powerful, near-light-speed jet of a blazar, and found it to be twisted, possibly as a result of one black hole orbiting another.

A new study from three University of Chicago scientists suggests a new way to work with the complex mathematics behind quantum phase transitions, which could help lead to new discoveries and technologies. Copyright Tamara Kulikova/ ...

The productivity of rainforests growing on highly weathered tropical soils is expected to be limited by phosphorus availability. Yet, controlled fertilization experiments have been unable to demonstrate a dominant role for phosphorus in controlling ...

Earth is the only planet known to have continents, although how they formed and evolved is unclear. Here using the oxygen isotope compositions of dated magmatic zircon, we show that the Pilbara Craton in Western Australia, Earth's best-preserved ...

New research on Antarctica, including the first map of iceberg calving, doubles the previous estimates of loss from ice shelves and details how the continent is changing. The greatest uncertainty in forecasting global sea level rise is how Antarctica's ...

The next time you spot a sea sponge, say “gesundheit!” Some sponges regularly “sneeze” to clear debris from their porous bodies. As filter feeders, sponges draw in water through inlet pores — called ostia — and strain it through an internal canal ...

Scientists say the window for protecting the world's largest ice sheet from significantly shrinking is narrowing, with troubling new predictions that it has the potential to unleash sea level rises of up to 16½ feet over the long term if greenhouse gas ...

The UCF payload is designed to simulate asteroid particle activity during the suborbital flight. Students, who have flown a similar payload on the International Space Station, are investigating particle collisions inside a device they developed.

Over the last 30 years, astronomers have found more than 5,000 exoplanets, an eclectic menagerie of worlds far from our stellar neighborhood. The latest may be a mere infant. In the journal The Astrophysical Journal Letters, scientists on Tuesday ...

An excavation of the Hartley site revealed the incomplete remains of two mammoths, believed to be an adult female and a juvenile. Most of the bones were grouped in a large pile, with the adult female's skull lying on top.

Dr. Minoo Rathnasabapathy was recently featured in two major news outlets to discuss space sustainability and her work with the Space Sustainability Rating project. BBC CLICK. BBC CLICK, a weekly flagship technology show of BBC World News recorded a ...

If you step outside on Thursday (Aug. 11) and look toward the east-southeast horizon shortly after 9 p.m. local time, you'll see the August full moon slowly ascending the sky. And as you watch, take note also of a bright yellow-white "star" shining to the ...

A robot engineered at Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) has done the unthinkable and flouted a steadfast law of motion, suggesting that new laws need to be defined. Such new principles may have applications in new forms of locomotion without ...

A powerful new approach for the precise, flexible modification of a broad class of chemical compounds called bicyclic aza-arenes—which are commonly used to build drug molecules—has been developed. The approach is expected to be readily adopted by the ...

A pair of studies show that male bottlenose dolphins rely on wingmen when wooing mates—and that they cultivate these friendships by being vocal. Full Transcript. Karen Hopkin: This ...

For the fourth and final time this year the moon will be larger and brighter than usual as it reaches its closest distance to Earth during its orbit. The good news for stargazers and anyone else ...