Cat locomotion could unlock better human spinal cord injury treatment
Cats always land on their feet, but what makes them so agile? Their unique sense of balance has more in common with humans than it may appear. Researchers are studying cat locomotion to better understand how the spinal cord works to help humans with pa…
Wide diversity of galaxies in the early universe
New data have revealed that the structures of galaxies in the early universe were much more diverse and mature than previously known. JWST’s ability to see faint high redshift galaxies in sharper detail than Hubble allowed the team of researchers to re…
Astronomers find the most distant stars in our galaxy halfway to Andromeda
Astronomers have discovered more than 200 distant variable stars known as RR Lyrae stars in the Milky Way’s stellar halo. The most distant of these stars is more than a million light years from Earth, almost half the distance to our neighboring galaxy,…
Hydrogen masers reveal new secrets of a massive star
While using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) to study the masers around oddball star MWC 349A scientists discovered something unexpected: a previously unseen jet of material launching from the star’s gas disk at impossibly high s…
Broccoli looks more like cauliflower in a warmer world
A new study identifies the genetic underpinnings for why broccoli heads become abnormal when it’s hot, providing insight into effects of climate-induced warming for all crops and pointing the way for breeding heat-resistant new varieties.
Broccoli looks more like cauliflower in a warmer world
A new study identifies the genetic underpinnings for why broccoli heads become abnormal when it’s hot, providing insight into effects of climate-induced warming for all crops and pointing the way for breeding heat-resistant new varieties.
Scientists find pair of black holes dining together in nearby galaxy merger
While studying a nearby pair of merging galaxies scientists have discovered two supermassive black holes growing simultaneously near the center of the newly coalescing galaxy. These super-hungry giants are the closest together that scientists have ever…
Is ‘fear’ driving bias in environmental scholarship?
Scientists understand that fear of predation affects animal behavior within landscapes. Now researchers are using a similar hypothesis — which they are calling ‘social-ecological landscapes of fear’ — to outline the detrimental effects of conservatio…
Is ‘fear’ driving bias in environmental scholarship?
Scientists understand that fear of predation affects animal behavior within landscapes. Now researchers are using a similar hypothesis — which they are calling ‘social-ecological landscapes of fear’ — to outline the detrimental effects of conservatio…
NASA’s retired Compton mission reveals superheavy neutron stars
Astronomers studying archival observations of powerful explosions called short gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) have detected light patterns indicating the brief existence of a superheavy neutron star shortly before it collapsed into a black hole. This fleeting…