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One Year Later: New Horizons’ Top 10 Discoveries at Pluto
NASA's New Horizons spacecraft captured this high-resolution enhanced color view of Pluto's moon Charon just before closest approach on July 14, 2015. Charon’s striking...
Space Station View of the Full Moon
Expedition 48 Commander Jeff Williams of NASA took this photograph on June 21, 2016, from the International Space Station, writing, "A spectacular rise of...
Los Angeles is a metropolitan den for mountain lions
Mountain lion habitats. Credit: National Park Service/Flickr
Los Angeles is one of only two megacities—Mumbai, India, is the other—where large predatory cats live among us,...
Mini-brain model of idiopathic autism reveals underlying pathology of neuronal overgrowth
This image shows induced pluripotent stem cell-derived neural progenitor cells after neuronal differentiation. The neurons express a pan neuronal marker Map2 in green and...
Electricity generated with water, salt and a 3-atoms-thick membrane
Proponents of clean energy will soon have a new source to add to their existing array of solar, wind, and hydropower: osmotic power. Or...
Stellar outburst brings water snowline around a young star into view
This artist's impression of the water snowline around the young star V883 Orionis, as detected with ALMA.
Credit: A. Angelich (NRAO/AUI/NSF)/ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO)
A violent outburst by...
New materials for construction of metal-organic 2-dimensional quasicrystals
This is a scanning tunneling microscopic image of the quasicrystalline network built up with europium atoms linked with para-quaterphenyl-dicarbonitrile.Credit: J. I. Urgel / TUM
Unlike...
Alaska’s shorebirds exposed to mercury
Pectoral Sandpipers and other shorebirds are being exposed to high levels of mercury in Alaska.Credit: B. Lagasse
Shorebirds breeding in Alaska are being exposed to...
Technological and cultural innovations amongst early humans not sparked by climate change
Researchers working inside the Klipdrift complex. Credit: Magnus Haaland
Environmental records obtained from archaeological sites in South Africa's southern Cape suggest climate may not have...
Ravens learn best from their affiliates
Preening helps ravens form and maintain social bonds with each other. Credit: Copyright: Flickr/yeliseev
Transmission of information from one individual to another forms the basis...
Graphene-infused packaging is a million times better at blocking moisture
Plastic packaging might seem impenetrable -- and sometimes nearly impossible to remove -- but water molecules can still pass through. And this permeability to...
