Galaxies of similar size to the Sombrero Galaxy may offer astronomers their first glimpse of a pair of supermassive black holes merging. This hat-shaped galaxy is large enough that its merging black holes would yield detectable gravitational waves, but...
Valerio Cerantola, corresponding author and postdoctoral scientist at the ESRF, at ESRF ID27 high pressure beamline.Credit: ESRF
Examining conditions within the Earth's interior is crucial not only to give us a window back to Earth's history but also to understand...
An illustration from the paper showing oxygen and hydrogen cycling in the deep Earth.
Credit: Image courtesy of Carnegie Institution for Science
Reservoirs of oxygen-rich iron between Earth's core and mantle could have played a major role in Earth's history, including...
UCI’s BedMachine ice mapping technique enabled the creation of a three-dimensional image of a portion of the northwest coast of Greenland. Ocean bathymetry is shown in blue and ice surface topography are displayed in white and orange.
Credit: Mathieu Morlighem...
Tuning into memories. Scientists mapped and read sound memories in rat brains.
Credit: Courtesy of Dr. Zador, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, N.Y.
Lights, sound, action: we are constantly learning how to incorporate outside sensations into our reactions in specific situations....
Tasbacka danica.
Credit: Johan Lindgren
Researchers from North Carolina State University, Lund University in Sweden and the University of Hyogo in Japan have retrieved original pigment, beta-keratin and muscle proteins from a 54 million-year-old sea turtle hatchling. The work adds to...
Sea turtle eggs exposed after hurricane-driven storm surge washed away sand and dunes where they were incubating. Photo taken Sept. 13, 2017, at Archie Carr National Wildlife Refuge, Brevard County, Florida.
Credit: G. Stahelin, Univeristy of Central Florida
Hurricane Irma took...
The Chao volcano in northern Chile with a lava coulée approx. 14.5 km long (centre of picture). The composition of the lava matches that of deposits of adjacent supervolcanic calderas. Chao erupted about 75,000 years ago, but zircon crystals...
A white fleck of plastic is engulfed by a coral polyp. New research finds the non-nutritive food may simply 'taste good' to the corals.
Credit: Alex Seymour, Duke University
Scientists have long known that marine animals mistakenly eat plastic debris because...
Ancient turkey DNA used to tracks migration of Mesa Verde Pueblo people from southwest Colorado.
Credit: National Park Service
Ancient DNA used to track the mass exodus of Ancestral Pueblo people from Colorado's Mesa Verde region in the late 13th century...
The concentrating photovoltaic system showing the top lenslet; the little black square visible near the middle is the solar cell and the lines running away from it are the contact wires.
Credit: Giebink Lab, Penn State
A concentrating photovoltaic system with...
