Antarctica.
Credit: Dave Pape, Public Domain
It's official: East Antarctica is pushing West Antarctica around.
Now that West Antarctica is losing weight--that is, billions of tons of ice per year--its softer mantle rock is being nudged westward by the harder mantle...
Artist's conceptions of the most-distant supermassive black hole ever discovered, which is part of a quasar from just 690 million years after the Big Bang. It is surrounded by neutral hydrogen, indicating that it is from the period called...
Black mouse ready to fight. Fighting behaviors and the neurons that represent them are not as fixed as previously believed.
Credit: © lllorrri / Fotolia
Adult male mice have a simple repertoire of innate, or instinctive, social behaviors: When encountering a...
Female mountain gorilla. The ancestors of simian primates -- such as gorillas, gibbons and tamarins -- were among the first to give up nocturnal activity altogether.
Credit: © F.C.G. / Fotolia
Mammals only started being active in the daytime after non-avian...
A hidden or 'choked' jet (white) powering a radio-emitting 'cocoon' (pink) is the best explanation for the radio waves, gamma rays and X-rays the astronomers observed.
Credit: NRAO/AUI/NSF: D. Berr
Three months of observations with the National Science Foundation's Karl G....
This is a macroalgae dominated reef in the Seychelles.
Credit: Nicholas Graham
Researchers examining the impact of climate change on coral reefs have found a way to predict which reefs are likely to recover following bleaching episodes and which won't.
Coral...
Island peak( Imja Tse) climbing, Everest region, Nepal.
Credit: © ykumsri / Fotolia
Sherpas have evolved to become superhuman mountain climbers, extremely efficient at producing the energy to power their bodies even when oxygen is scarce, suggests new research published today...
TWEAK regulates inflammation in atopic dermatitis and psoriasis. Left: Normal skin. Middle: Skin inflammation in atopic dermatitis. Right: Blocking TWEAK reduces skin inflammation in atopic dermatitis.
Credit: Courtesy of Dr. Daniel Sidler, La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology
Superficially, psoriasis...
Current coral bleaching in Fiji.
Credit: Professor Peter J Mumby, University of Queensland
Geoengineering of the climate may be the only way to save coral reefs from mass bleaching, according to new research.
Coral reefs are considered one of the most vulnerable...
Spacecraft Cassini with an instrument from the Swedish Institute of Space Physics on board (in red circle) passed through Saturn’s atmosphere.
Credit: Artist’s impression: NASA
A Langmuir probe, developed in Sweden and flown to Saturn on the Cassini spacecraft, has made...
Cosmic rays interacting with the Earth's atmosphere producing ions that helps turn small aerosols into cloud condensation nuclei -- seeds on which liquid water droplets form to make clouds. A proton with energy of 100 GeV interact at the...
