AuthorBoeing Starliner’s return to Earth delayed again
Boeing’s Starliner blasted off from Florida following years of delays and safety scares — as well as two recently aborted launch attempts that came as astronauts were already strapped in…
We’ve found a way to help endangered eels overcome dams and weirs
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain The European eel Anguilla anguilla, a sleek, snake-like fish with a fascinating life cycle, once teemed in rivers. But their numbers have plummeted by more than…
Saturday Citations: Bulking tips for black holes; microbes influence drinking; new dinosaur just dropped
Reconstruction of Lokiceratops in the 78-million-year-old swamps of northern Montana, as two Probrachylophosaurus move past in the background. Credit: Fabrizio Lavezzi What did scientists do this week? Exactly four things,…
Kangaroo teeth grow forever—and keep a record of their owner’s age and sex
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain How do you find out the age of a wild animal? For some Australian marsupials, we have discovered you can tell from their teeth. In a…
Protected areas can boost biodiversity and local economies
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Protected areas, like nature reserves, can conserve biodiversity without harming local economic growth, countering a common belief that conservation restricts development. A new study outlines what…
NASA faces $80,000 claim after space debris hit family home
Credit: Edvin Richardson from Pexels An American family is claiming more than $80,000 from NASA after a small piece of debris fell from space and smashed through the roof of…
China, France launch satellite to better understand the universe
A Long March 2-C rocket carrying a satellite jointly developed by China and France to measure gamma-ray bursts lifts off from a space base in Xichang in southwestern China. A…
Key mechanism in nuclear reaction dynamics promises advances in nuclear physics
Using the advanced GALILEO Array coupled with the 4π Si-ball EUCLIDES, the researchers conducted in-depth spectroscopic analysis to track and identify the reactions. The gamma-gamma coincidence method was crucial in…
Study challenges popular idea that Easter islanders committed ‘ecocide’
Hundreds of huge stone statues known as moai built by earlier residents are taken by some as evidence of a onetime much larger population. Credit: Stephanie Morcinek via Unsplash Some…
Focusing micromechanical polaritons in topologically nontrivial hyperbolic metasurfaces
Credit: Advanced Materials (2024). DOI: 10.1002/adma.202311599 Dr. Johan Christensen, leader of IMDEA Materials Institute’s Mechanical and Acoustic Metamaterials research group, is among the researchers behind a pioneering study exploring the…
