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IRCM researchers explain how evolution has equipped our hands with five fingers
Have you ever wondered why our hands have exactly five fingers? Dr. Marie Kmita's team certainly has. The researchers at the Institut de recherches...
Ocean Plastic Pollution worse than expected
The Ocean Cleanup concludes first-ever reconnaissance flight over ‘Great Pacific Garbage Patch’
The Ocean Cleanup, the Dutch foundation developing advanced technologies to rid the oceans...
Stress and obesity biologically linked
Image Source: Flickr/mlazarevski
Metabolic and anxiety-related disorders both pose a significant healthcare burden, and are in the spotlight of contemporary research and therapeutic efforts. Although...
3-D-printed robots with shock-absorbing skins
MIT researchers outfitted their cube robot with shock-absorbing "skins" (left) that transfer less than half of the energy that would normally be transferred to...
Saturn’s moon Dione harbors a subsurface ocean
Representation of the interior of Enceladus with icy crust, ocean and solid core. ROB researchers think that Dione may also have a subsurface ocean.
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Maximum human lifespan has already been reached
A study published online today in Nature by Albert Einstein College of Medicine scientists suggests that it may not be possible to extend the...
Rover’s Panorama Taken Amid ‘Murray Buttes’ on Mars
This 360-degree panorama was acquired by the Mast Camera (Mastcam) on NASA's Curiosity Mars rover while the rover was in an area called "Murray...
Electron beam microscope directly writes nanoscale features in liquid with metal ink
To direct-write the logo of the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, scientists started with a gray-scale image. They used the electron beam...
26 Jaguars Killed in Panama So Far This Year
A jaguar named Aquiles recorded by camera traps in Cana National Park, Darien Province, Panama.Credit: Fundación Yaguará Panamá.
Ricardo Moreno, research associate at the Smithsonian...
Detonating white dwarfs as supernovae
This is a Hubble Space Telescope image of supernova 1994D in galaxy NGC 4526.Credit: NASA/ESA
New model explains how inspiraling dead stars can explode at...
Earthquake risk: New fault discovered in earthquake-prone Southern California region
Scripps geologist Neal Driscoll taking measurements of the onshore sediment layers along the eastern edge of the Salton Sea.Credit: Scripps Institution of Oceanography
A swarm...
