De Kleer’s paper examines the powerful late-August eruption in detail, concluding that the energy emitted was about 20 Terawatts and expelled many cubic kilometers of lava. These par...
But then, something changed, people began living in much larger communities which were run by one person, or small groups of people, resulting in less freedom of choice for everyone ...
A composite image of the massive star forming region Cygnus OB2. The image shows X-ray emission from Chandra (blue), infrared from Spitzer (red), and optical data from the Isaac Newt...
Among the many groups of marine reptiles from the Age of Dinosaurs, elasmosaurs are famous for their necks, which can have up to 76 vertebrae and make up more than half the total len...
Local causality is a very natural scientific assumption and it holds in all modern scientific theories, except quantum mechanics. Thus, because local causality is such a natural hypo...
Although the mechanisms that cause flowering before and after winter are largely known by now, relatively little is known about how plants delay their flowering time during a cold sp...
The identification of a protein that selectively clears damaged chloroplasts from plant cells reveals how plants maintain a clean workshop during the process of photosynthesis. Jesse...
The Chagos Marine Reserve protects the ocean from fishing and other activities. UBC Institute for Ocean and Fisheries researchers found that major swaths of the ocean must still be p...
The stars and the faint arm of the Milky Way are visible over a wind farm just north of Medicine Bow, Wyo. on Thursday night, Jan. 3, 2013 just before moonrise at 11:30 p.m. (AP Phot...
How does the given process really take place? What follows from it is quite an intuitive prediction: that at a given temperature the rate of evaporation of the liquid depends on how ...
A team of paleontologists of the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, the State University of New York at Oswego and Brown University shows in a new study of fossil amphibians that the extr...
The building block of this type of order, namely charge, is simply a scalar quantity–that is, it can be described by just a numerical value, or magnitude. Over the last several decad...
Previously, giant sharks had only been recovered from rock dating back 130 million years, during the age of the dinosaurs. The largest shark that ever lived, commonly called Megalodo...
OSIRIS-REx, led by the University of Arizona, will be the first U.S. mission to return samples from an asteroid to Earth for further study. The simulation concludes with a test in wh...
[Development] Posted Oct 25, 2015 1:00 UTC (Sun) by corbet Python language developer Nick Coghlan has posted a survey of 27 languages that, he thinks, have lessons for Python. One o...
Researchers at the University of Iowa examined the amount of carbon generated in two counties in the Twin Cities, Minnesota and then calculated the amount of carbon absorbed by all t...
The observations were made by the spacecraft’s visible, infrared and thermal imaging spectrometer, VIRTIS, and revealed an average surface temperature of –70ºC. Credit: ESA (Phys.or...
Credit: Truong Nguyen More than 10,000 reptile species have been recorded into the Reptile Database, a web-based catalogue of all living reptile species and classification, making t...
Researchers at the University of Miami (UM) Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science developed a new method to estimate fish movements using ocean heat content images, a d...
Rice’s David Shis (left) and Matthew Bennett are advancing synthetic biology with their work to develop more complicated, and capable, genetic circuits that mimic computer circuits t...
Oxia Planum has been recommended as the primary candidate for the landing site of the ExoMars 2018 mission. The main goal for the rover is to search for evidence of martian life, pas...
Geneticist Jennifer Doudna co-invented a groundbreaking new technology for editing genes, called CRISPR-Cas9. The tool allows scientists to make precise edits to DNA strands, which c...
As described in Hanson’s group web the Delft experiment first entangled two electrons trapped inside two different diamond crystals, and then measured the electrons’ orientations. Mo...
New understanding of changes in North Pacific ocean circulation over the past 1.2 million years could lead to better global climate models An unprecedented analysis of North Pacific...