Credit: NASA From the Earth-orbiting International Space Station, flying some 225 nautical miles above the Caribbean Sea in the early morning hours of July 15, NASA astronaut Reid W...
Credit: Stefan Greif Scientists have discovered that greater mouse-eared bats use polarisation patterns in the sky to navigate – the first mammal that’s known to do this. ‘We know t...
A study has just identified the nature of these waves for the first time. This is mostly due to the fact that the dynamics of Venus’ atmosphere is radically different from planets wi...
(Phys.org) —In the presence of charged substances, H 2 O molecules favor associating with elements with a negative electrical charge rather than a positive electric charge. EPFL rese...
NASA’s Van Allen Probes orbit through two giant radiation belts surrounding Earth. Recent data from the Van Allen Probes suggests that it is a two-fold process: One mechanism gives t...
As the largest animals to have ever lived on Earth, blue whales maintain their enormous body size through efficient foraging strategies that optimize the energy they gain from the kr...
Stanford Earth scientists have created tools to analyze branched networks of Earth-bound channels formed by water and erosion. The work could provide insights into processes that for...
One of the riddles of mammal evolution explained: the strong conservation of the number of trunk vertebrae. They measured variation in vertebrae of 774 individual mammal skeletons of...
Credit: Nico Michiels, University of Tübingen (Phys.org) —A team of researchers with members from Germany and Egypt has found that red fluorescence as found in many species of fish ...
In two separate experiments, the researchers examined how people with high-status job assignments evaluated security and privacy and how impulsive or patient they were in making deci...
Understanding the sun from afar isn’t easy. Closer to Earth we can observe charged particles from the sun, but analyzing them can be a challenge as their journey is affected by magne...
Credit: Umea University Researchers from Umeå University, Sweden, have explored two different ways that allow unprecedented experimental insights into the reaction sequence leading ...
WCS has worked to protect wildlife in this region since the 1960s. A rugged peninsula in Argentina’s Patagonia region teeming with wildlife, including southern right whales, Magellan...
Never mind the big bang; in the beginning was the vacuum. Specifically, Johnson has been considering the rare cases in which our bubble universe might collide with another bubble uni...
Credit: ATK/Goleta The Magnetometer instrument that will fly on NOAA’s GOES-R satellite when it is launched in early 2016 has completed the development and testing phase and is read...
Difference in chemical composition between the stars 16 Cyg A and 16 Cyg B, versus the condensation temperature of the elements in the proto-planetary nebula. In other words, star 16...
A chimpanzee’s intelligence is largely determined by its genes, while environmental factors may be less important than scientists previously thought, according to a Georgia State Uni...
Credit: Alex Needham, CC BY Trains that use magnets to levitate above the tracks might sound like something from Back to the Future, but the concept of magnetic levitation has been ...
Credit: Peiyun Cong and co-authors An international team of paleontologists has identified the exquisitely preserved brain in the fossil of one of the world’s first known predators ...
The native forests of Borneo have been increasingly impacted by logging, fire, and conversion to plantations since the early 1970s. To better understand long-term forest cover and lo...
Phase VSC-3 (Vienna Scientific Cluster 3) offers not only impressive computing power, but also serious energy efficiency. A total of eight Austrian universities are participating in ...
Fine-grain materials, such as dust and sand, show up as dark areas, most notably in the streaky rays made of fine material flung away in the aftermath of the meteorite’s impact. We u...
The first all-optical permanent on-chip memory has been developed by scientists of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and the universities of Münster, Oxford, and Exeter. Phase ...
When using the pv command, it gives you a visual display of the following information: The time that has elapsed. How to Install pv Command in Linux? The syntax of pv...
This is because the physics of interactions at these scales is difficult, say physicists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, who with colleagues elsewhere this week unveil a ...