Artist's impression of the unique object C/2014 S3 (PANSTARRS). Observations with ESO's Very Large Telescope, and the Canada France Hawai`i Telescope, show that this is the first object to be discovered that is on a long-period cometary orbit, but...
Digital reconstruction of the Canadian Arctic fossil bear, Protarctos abstrusus.
Credit: Xiaoming Wang
Researchers from the Canadian Museum of Nature and the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County have identified remains of a 3.5-million-year-old bear from a fossil-rich site in...
Caption Recurrent food poisoning induces a pro-inflammatory enzyme (green) that disrupts the body's ability to detoxify resident normal gut bacteria.
Credit: Jamey Marth
A startling discovery published today in the journal Science reveals how your past history of minor bacterial infections...
Tropical forest.
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Missouri Botanical Garden researcher Dr. Carmen Ulloa is the lead author of "An Integrated Assessment of Vascular Plant Species of the Americas," published today in Science. Ulloa along with 23 co-authors compiled a...
The research team positioned themselves away from polar wildlife to limit contamination, but one persistently curious character meant a testing site had to be abandoned.
Credit: James Chong
For the first time scientists have directly observed living bacteria in polar ice...
The Angmaat Formation above Tremblay Sound on the Baffin Island coast. Bangiomorpha pubescens fossils occur in this roughly 500-meter thick rock formation.
Credit: Timothy Gibson
The world's oldest algae fossils are a billion years old, according to a new analysis by...
Premature baby (stock image).
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New King's College London research, published today (28 November) in eLife, shows that adults born prematurely -- who also suffered small brain injuries around the time of birth -- have lower...
Average composite reflectivity over the CONUS (contiguous US) domain in all 13 years of the simulations are shown by season (May-June and July-August) and by simulation type (control and psuedo global warming).
Credit: Kristen Rasmussen/NCAR
How would today's weather patterns look...
The research team at the Bletterbach paloentological site, Dolomites, Northern Italy.
Credit: Photo by Christian Weber
A whopping two hundred and fifty-two million years ago, Earth was crawling with bizarre animals, including dinosaur cousins resembling Komodo dragons and bulky early mammal-relatives,...
Ben Tippett, a mathematics and physics instructor at UBC, recently published a study about the feasibility of time travel. (Stock image)
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After some serious number crunching, a UBC researcher has come up with a mathematical model...
Climate change
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Approaching the second half of the century, the United States is likely to experience increases in the number of days with extreme heat, the frequency and duration of heat waves, and the length of...
