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Left: This is an image of the star HR 8799 taken by Hubble’s Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer (NICMOS) in 1998. A mask within the camera (coronagraph) blocks most…
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General view of the cave site of Panga ya Saidi. Note trench excavation where burial was unearthed. Credit: Mohammad Javad Shoaee The discovery of the earliest human burial site yet…
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Richard Whitlock, professor of surgery at McMaster University, performing heart surgery. Credit: Hamilton Health Sciences Removing left atrial appendage cuts the risk of strokes by more than one-third in patients…
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Figure 1: cosmological simulation of the distant Universe. The image shows the light emitted by hydrogen atoms in the cosmic web in a region roughly 15 million light years across.…
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A lava flow from Hawaii’s Kilauea Volcano enters the ocean near Isaac Hale Beach Park on August 5, 2018. The volcano’s 2018 eruption was its largest in over 200 years.…
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Egyptian goose (Alopochen aegyptiaca) originally from Africa and now established in Central and Western Europe. Credit: Professor Tim Blackburn, UCL The number of alien (non-native) species, particularly insects, arthropods and…
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Scientists characterize previously unknown gut reactions. Strictly speaking, humans cannot digest complex carbohydrates — that’s the job of bacteria in our large intestines. UC Riverside scientists have just discovered a…
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Rodents and pigs share with certain aquatic organisms the ability to use their intestines for respiration, finds a study publishing May 14th in the journal Med. The researchers demonstrated that…
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Staff engineer Bruis van Vlijmen is seen working inside the Battery Informatics Lab 1070 in the Arrillaga Science Center, Bldg. 57. Credit: Jacqueline Orrell/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory An X-ray instrument…
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Rapidly rotating neutron stars may be “humming” continuous gravitational waves. Credit: K. Wette Remember the days before working from home? It’s Monday morning, you’re running late to beat the traffic,…
