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Researchers estimate 10,000 metric tons of plastic enter Great Lakes every year
Researchers found that nearly 10,000 metric tons -- or 22 million pounds -- of plastic debris enter the Great Lakes every year from the...
Sex cells evolved to pass on quality mitochondria
One of a series of ova made in a spell of reproductive mitochondrial interest. The ovum about to ovulate has differentiated from the rest...
Festive Nebulas Light Up Milky Way Galaxy Satellite
The data used in this image were taken with Hubble’s Advanced Camera for Surveys in September 2015.Credits: NASA, ESA, STScI, K. Sandstrom (University of...
Cosmic ‘Winter’ Wonderland
Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/PSU/L.Townsley et al; Optical: UKIRT; Infrared: NASA/JPL-Caltech
Although there are no seasons in space, this cosmic vista invokes thoughts of a frosty winter...
El Nino fueled Zika outbreak, new study suggests
Image Credit: Flickr/Katja Schulz
Scientists at the University of Liverpool have shown that a change in weather patterns, brought on by the 'Godzilla' El Niño...
Pop-outs: How the brain extracts meaning from noise
When you're suddenly able to understand someone despite their thick accent, or finally make out the lyrics of a song, your brain appears to...
Scientists bear witness to birth of an ice cloud
Ice crystals form around a minuscule particle in the very first seconds of the formation of an ice cloud.Credit: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Scientists have...
ACA repeal could cost California more than 200,000 jobs
Image Credit: Flickr/Michael Havens Follow
Efforts to repeal the Affordable Care Act could take away health insurance from millions of Californians, while also eliminating 209,000 jobs...
Researchers trace neural activity by using quantum sensors
Jenny Schloss (left) and Matthew Turner, Ph.D. candidates at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, are co-authors of a recent paper on using...
Scientists detect a quantum crystal of electrons and ‘watch’ it melt
MIT researchers believe they have finally captured the process of quantum melting — a phase transition in quantum mechanics, in which electrons that have...
Study shows how brain begins repairs after ‘silent strokes’
New, functional brain cells replace those destroyed by stroke in animals. Here, cells are in various stages of maturity: immature cells are green, more...
