There are big, open scientific questions about levels of exposure and toxicity Tiny particles of plastic have been found everywhere — from the deepest place on the planet, the Mariana Trench, to the top of Mount Everest. And now more and more studies are finding that microplastics, defined as plasticContinue Reading
Watch live online as the dwarf planet Ceres swoops in front of the ‘grand design’ spiral galaxy Messier 100 this weekend. This weekend, you can watch live as the first asteroid ever discovered passes across one of the night sky’s most beautiful spiral galaxies. The Rome-based Virtual Telescope Project(opens inContinue Reading
The finding hints at a possible treatment for alcohol poisoning The only cure to being drunk is to wait it out. But that might not always be the case: Injecting drunk mice with a naturally occurring hormone helped them sober up more quickly than they otherwise would have, a newContinue Reading
A small number of Candida auris infections are also resistant to antifungal drugs A fungus that recently evolved to infect humans is spreading rapidly in health care facilities in the United States and becoming harder to treat, a study from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention finds. CandidaContinue Reading
The electric charge generated by a flying insect is strong enough to pull in a leaping nematode LAS VEGAS: Some species of parasitic roundworms can catapult themselves high into the air to latch onto fruit flies and other insects. Experiments now reveal that leaping Steinernema carpocapsae nematodes take advantage ofContinue Reading
JWST’s sharp infrared eyes reveal stunning new details invisible to previous observatories A gaggle of galaxies crackle with intricate detail in new images from the James Webb Space Telescope. JWST’s sharp infrared eyes are revealing how newborn stars shape their surroundings, giving hints to how stars and galaxies grow upContinue Reading
Scientists detected a cloud of gas sculpted into a wonky tadpole shape near the Milky Way’s center, possibly pointing to a rare intermediate-mass black hole. An enormous, deformed dust cloud that astronomers nicknamed “the Tadpole” could point to the location of an extremely rare type of black hole never confirmedContinue Reading
The storms not only threaten people, but also sea ice, which influences the global climate CHICAGO : In January 2022, a cyclone blitzed a large expanse of ice-covered ocean between Greenland and Russia. Frenzied gusts galvanized 8-meter-tall waves that pounded the region’s hapless flotillas of sea ice, while a bombardmentContinue Reading
In How Far the Light Reaches, Sabrina Imbler shows us that the ocean, in all its mystery and dazzling glory, is queer — that is, the life that takes shape there challenges how we landlubbers perceive ways of being. This collection of essays tells the stories of 10 sea creatures,Continue Reading
The first full moon of the new year will be a ‘micromoon,’ with the moon at its farthest point from Earth. Look up on Jan. 6 for a view of the first full moon of 2023: The Wolf ‘micromoon.’ January’s full moon will be slightly smaller than average because theContinue Reading