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There’s a ‘Lost City’ Deep in The Ocean, And It’s Unlike Anything…
Close to the summit of an underwater mountain west of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, a jagged landscape of towers rises from the gloom.Their creamy carbonate walls and columns appear ghostly blue in the light of a remotely operated vehicle…
Webb Peers Into Frozen Heart of Molecular Cloud – Unveils Dark Side of Pre-Stellar Ice Chemistry
An international team of astronomers has reported the discovery of diverse ices in the darkest regions of a cold molecular cloud measured to date by studying this region. This result allows astronomers to examine the simple icy molecules…
How Artificial Intelligence Found the Words To Kill Cancer Cells
Cancer is a disease characterized by the abnormal growth and division of cells in the body. Tumors can affect any part of the body and can be benign (non-cancerous) or malignant (cancerous), spreading to other parts of the body through…
Carnivorous oyster mushrooms can kill roundworms with “nerve gas in a lollipop”
Enlarge / Oyster mushrooms (Pleurotus ostreatus) serenely growing on a tree trunk in a forest. But nematodes beware! These oyster mushrooms want to eat you—and they have evolved a novel…
‘This is bad, bad news … for all of us.’ New study tracks Greenland’s ice thaw rates.
Comment on this storyCommentThe coldest and highest parts of the Greenland ice sheet, nearly two miles above sea level in many locations, are warming rapidly and showing changes that are unprecedented in at least a millennium, scientists…
From start to finish, Sunday’s Falcon Heavy launch delivered spectacular imagery
Enlarge / A Falcon Heavy rocket launched about 10 minutes after sunset on Sunday from Florida.Trevor Mahlmann
The Falcon Heavy rocket made its fifth…
NASA Just Discovered a Rare Earth-Sized Planet in a Habitable Zone : ScienceAlert
When it comes to finding life outside of our Solar System, planets that closely resemble Earth seem like a good place to start. We can now welcome celestial object TOI 700 e to that group of promising leads.TOI 700 e has been confirmed…
More Scientific Images Should Go This Hard
I read a lot of press releases about new scientific papers for my job. Sometimes the art that accompanies them is funny, such as this unapologetically fuchsia rendering of the microscopic creature Saccorhytus. Sometimes they are…