In this image, the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope peers into the spiral galaxy NGC 1317 in the constellation Fornax, located more than 50 million light-years from Earth. Visible in this galaxy image is a bright blue ring that hosts hot, young stars. NGC 1317 is one of a pair, but its rowdy larger neighbor, NGC 1316, lies outside Hubble's field of view.

A team of researchers led by Niccolò Maffezzoli, "Marie Curie" fellow at Ca' Foscari University of Venice and the University of California, Irvine, and an associate member of the Institute of Polar Sciences of the National Research Council of Italy, has developed the first global model based on artificial intelligence to calculate the ice thickness distribution of all the glaciers on Earth.

It’s usually cooler under a forest than outside the forest, but that natural temperature buffering didn’t make global warming any less strong during the last 45 years in an old-growth forest of Oregon.

The Amazon rainforest may be able to survive long-term drought caused by climate change, but adjusting to a drier, warmer world would exact a heavy toll, a study published in Nature Ecology and Evolution suggests.

The northern white rhinoceros is one of the rarest animals on Earth, with just two females left and no natural way for the species to reproduce.

From ethnographic accounts and ancient Mayan imagery, we know that the Maya engaged in various forms of body modification, including piercing, body painting, scarification, and tattooing. However, no Mayan remains with tattoos or tattooing implements are known from the archaeological record.

In a new study published in Physical Review Letters, scientists have estimated a new lower bound on the mass of ultra-lightweight bosonic dark matter particles.

Quantum computers can one day be vastly more powerful than the most powerful supercomputers on the planet — but only if scientists find ways to fix the extremely high error rate in qubits.

Researchers who took a close look at loosened concealed carry laws between 2010 and 2017 have found that "Shall Issue" regulations, which remove local authority discretion on the issuance of concealed carry gun permits, contribute to a significant increase in handgun purchases. At the same time, the researchers found that in states that adopted "Permitless Carry" policies, there was no noticeable change in gun purchases.

Harvard University for decades assumed it had a cheap copy of the Magna Carta in its collection, a stained and faded document it had purchased for less than $30.

When a plant species spreads beyond its habitat, it is usually seen as a threat to native flora and fauna. But what happens when that same species is struggling to survive in its original range?

Para conseguir la inmunidad, en China aplicaban la inoculación moliendo costras secas de gente con viruela para después esnifar el polvo resultante

An Australian aerospace firm said Thursday it has delayed a historic first attempt to launch a locally developed rocket into orbit, with a jar of Vegemite as its payload.

Many U.S. public schools run drills to prepare students for what to do if they’re confronted with an active shooter. But such drills show little evidence of preventing violence and can cause stress, which itself can be harmful. Could monitoring students’ social media be a better alternative?

The Landslide Blog is written by Dave Petley, who is widely recognized as a world leader in the study and management of landslides. Over the course of my career, I have read many papers (and indeed, written a few) that have tried to explain the distribution of landslides based upon combinations of factors that we […]

Using advanced technology that analyzes tiny gas bubbles trapped in crystals, a team of scientists led by Cornell University has precisely mapped how magma storage evolves as Hawaiian volcanoes age.

Seit vielen Jahren informiert Dominik Jung seine Youtube-Zuschauer über das aktuelle Wetter und dessen Kapriolen. Jetzt hat er ein Buch über sein Lieblingsthema geschrieben. Im Interview spricht er über die Folgen des Klimawandels und wie treffsicher heutige Prognosen sind.

The progress comes as the Trump administration is proposing to cut funding for many programs believed to have contributed to the improvement.

On March 15, 2024, near the peak of the current solar cycle, the sun produced a solar flare and an accompanying coronal mass ejection (CME), a massive explosion of gas and magnetic energy that carries with it large amounts of solar energetic particles. This solar activity led to stunning auroras across the solar system, including at Mars, where NASA's Perseverance Mars rover made history by detecting them for the first time from the surface of another planet.

Engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California have revived a set of thrusters aboard the Voyager 1 spacecraft that had been considered inoperable since 2004. Fixing the thrusters required creativity and risk, but the team wants to have them available as a backup to a set of active thrusters whose fuel tubes are experiencing a buildup of residue that could cause them to stop working as early as this fall.

Who are the people that make up the world's economic elite—and do they differ between countries? In a new, unique database, an international team of researchers has compiled individual data from 16 countries that together account for a third of the world's population and more than half of the world's GDP. Their study is published in The British Journal of Sociology.

Researchers at Toyohashi University of Technology in Japan, in collaboration with the Institute of Translational Medicine and Biomedical Engineering (IMTIB) in Argentina and the Indian Institute of Technology Madras, have advanced the "PDMS SlipChip," a versatile microfluidic device. By using a low-viscosity silicone oil and fine-tuning the fabrication process, they've made the SlipChip more reliable for cell-based experiments and simpler for creating concentration gradients.

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DECHEMA, which organises the ACHEMA, the leading trade show for the global process industry, launches ACHEMA Middle East in Saudi Arabia together with Messe Frankfurt. DECHEMA and Messe Frankfurt have reached the necessary agreements and the event will be held for the first time in Riyadh in 2026, and then every three years after that. ACHEMA Middle East is supported by the Ministry of Industry and Mineral Resources of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia..

Refeyn, the company behind pioneering mass photometry technology, has announced the installation of the 500th system based on its novel single-particle bioanalytical technology – notably, within just seven years of its spin out from Oxford University in 2018. This key milestone is marked as a ‘game changer’ by the Ploug Group at the University of Copenhagen’s Biotech Research & Innovation Centre, where their new TwoMP mass photometer and MassFluidix HC system are now installed...