Warm ocean current reaches surprisingly far south in the Antarctic Weddell Sea
New observations recently published in Nature Communications show that warm deep water also reaches the large Filchner ice shelf in the southern Weddell Sea.
Warm...
Managing uncertainty: How soil carbon feedbacks could affect climate change
There is more than twice as much carbon in the planet's soils than there is in its atmosphere, so the loss of even a...
Space scientists observe Io’s atmospheric collapse during eclipse
An artist’s rendering depicts the atmosphere on Io, Jupiter’s volcanic moon, as it collapses during daily eclipses. Credit: Southwest Research Institute
A Southwest Research Institute-led...
First major database of non-native English
English is the most used language on the Internet, and globally most of the people who speak or write in English are non-native speakers....
Physicists reach lowest temperature ever recorded in solids using laser cooling
UNM Research Assistant Aram Gragossian tests lasers in one of the Department of Physics & Astronomy's optics laboratories. Credit: University of New Mexico
When most...
Millennials Less Sexually Active than Gen-X Peers
The sculpture "Psyche Revived by Cupid's Kiss" by Antonio Canova. Credit: Joe deSousa, public domain
Since time immemorial, older generations have fretted over the sexual...
Tracking down the first chefs
Image showing marks produced by humans when eating meat in the experiment carried out in this research.Credit: Antonio J. Romero / UPV/EHU
Archaeological sites speak...
Faintest hisses from space reveal famous star’s past life
The supernova shock front as it pushes material from the blue and red supergiant phases.Credit: CAASTRO/Mats Björklund (Magipics)
Astronomers have managed to peer into the...
A giant stellar void in the Milky Way
An artist's impression of the implied distribution of young stars, represented here by Cepheids shown as blue stars, plotted on the background of a...
How birds soar to great heights
Migratory birds often use warm, rising atmospheric currents to gain height with little energy expenditure when flying over long distances.
It's a behavior known as...
Excessive alcohol consumption impacts breathing
A study led by researchers from Loyola Medicine and Loyola University Chicago has discovered a potential new health concern related to excessive alcohol consumption.
Adults...
