Entire Cities Could Fit Inside the Moon’s Monstrous Lava Tubes
Scientists study massive lava tubes on moon, Mars The moon and Mars have huge lava tubes that could shelter and protect humans and [...]
This Ichthyosaur Died After Devouring a Creature Nearly As Long As Itself
An ancient, dolphin-like reptile called an ichthyosaur may have died from overeating. A bulge in the belly of this fossilized creature (pictured) contains [...]
Tiny ‘Hearts’ Self-Assemble in Lab Dishes and Actually Beat
Scientists create beating heart organoids in lab Researchers have grown heart organoids in the lab using stem cells, and the small structures appear [...]
This is What it Looks Like When a Star is Born
Model simulates a star-forming gas cloud A colorful and detailed simulation described in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society shows a [...]
Some Insects Have More Than 200,000 Brain Cells
Insect brains possess immense processing power Fruit flies and mosquitoes have about 200,000 neurons that work together to help them navigate, find food [...]
Brain Implants Turn Imagined Handwriting into Text on a Screen
Paralyzed man writes on screen with his mind (Pixabay) A man paralyzed from his neck down was able to imagine writing words and [...]
Scientists Find Liquid Water Inside a Meteorite
Fragments of the Sutter’s Mill meteorite, collected by NASA Ames and SETI Institute meteor astronomer Dr. Peter Jenniskens in the evening of Tuesday [...]
Farewell, Bennu! NASA spacecraft leaves asteroid to bring pieces of space rock to Earth
NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft captured this image of the asteroid Bennu on April 29, 2020. The probe began the long journey back toward Earth [...]
Mangrove forests on the Yucatan Peninsula store record amounts of carbon
Mangrove trees surround Cristalino Cenote (pictured), a water-filled sinkhole on Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula. Soils beneath mangrove-ringed cenotes have some of the highest carbon [...]
‘Mars isn’t dead.’ There could be active volcanoes
Recent explosive volcanic deposit around a fissure of the Cerberus Fossae system. Research: Volcanic eruptions on Mars may be recent (Pixabay) Volcanoes may [...]