Hot, rocky planets may change their composition if rock components vaporize in steam atmospheres...
Washington University in St. Louis cosmochemists show that hot, rocky exoplanets with steam atmospheres may vaporize some of their rocky elements and then lose...
Blocking key enzyme halts parkinson’s disease symptoms in mice
Researchers at Johns Hopkins say they have gleaned two important new clues in the fight against Parkinson's disease: that blocking an enzyme called c-Abl...
Greenery in Neighborhoods May Reduce Adolescent Aggressive Behavior
A study to be published in the July 2016 issue of the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry(JAACAP) reports that...
How the spleen filters blood
Red blood cells must be small and flexible enough to squeeze through the tiniest capillaries of the body, where they deliver oxygen to surrounding...
Chronic fatigue syndrome is in your gut, not your head
Physicians have been mystified by chronic fatigue syndrome, a condition where normal exertion leads to debilitating fatigue that isn't alleviated by rest. There are...
New mid-infrared laser system could detect atmospheric chemicals
This diagram depicts the way a mid-infrared laser (red cylinder, left) can send a beam through the atmosphere that generates filaments of ionized air...
Hubble reveals the iridescent interior of NGC 1569, one of the most active galaxies...
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image reveals the iridescent interior of one of the most active galaxies in our local neighbourhood — NGC 1569,...
Humans are greater threat to sharks, not the other way around
Credit: Florida International University
Fans of Shark Week are sinking their teeth into a whole new slate of programming focused on one of the world’s...
SDO Watches Twisting Solar Material Over the Sun’s Surface
Solar material twists above the sun’s surface in this close-up captured by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory on June 7-8, 2016, showcasing the turbulence caused...
NASA spots Tropical Cyclone 02A develop in Arabian Sea
Tropical Cyclone 02A developed in the Northern Indian Ocean's Arabian Sea as NASA's Aqua satellite passed overhead and analyzed the storm in infrared light...
SwRI’s Parker discovers moon over Makemake in the Kuiper Belt
A Southwest Research Institute-led team has discovered an elusive, dark moon orbiting Makemake, one of the "big four" dwarf planets populating the Kuiper Belt...
