Light is something we interact with every day, whether it’s sunlight illuminating the sky or artificial light inside our homes. However, what we don’t often… Read More »Scientists Use Light to Control Electron Motion in Graphene
An exciting discovery has been made by an international team of paleontologists: a new species of worm lizard has been unearthed in Tunisia, representing the… Read More »Giant Fossil Worm Lizard Discovered
Scientists have recently made significant strides in understanding the mysterious sources of heat that sustain the super-hot gas surrounding the Milky Way galaxy, which has… Read More »Researchers Explain the Origins of the Milky Way’s Super-Hot Gas
The study of how genes are regulated in living organisms has taken a significant step forward with a recent study from the University of Bonn… Read More »Scientists Discover Overlapping Enhancers in Gene Regulation
Marine biologists from Norway, the United States, and Denmark recently achieved a significant milestone by conducting the first hearing test on a live baleen whale.… Read More »First-Ever Hearing Test on Live Baleen Whales Yields Surprising Results
Panspermia suggests that life could travel between planetary bodies, serving as an alternative path for the emergence of life across solar systems. If evidence of… Read More »Microbial Contamination Challenges the Search for Extraterrestrial Life
A massive collision of galaxies sparked by one traveling at a scarcely-believable 2 million mph (3.2 million km/h) has been seen in unprecedented detail by… Read More »WEAVE Telescope Captures a High-Speed Galactic Collision
The question of why life uses molecules with specific orientations—favoring left-handed over right-handed structures—has puzzled scientists for years. Recent research published in Nature Communications has… Read More »RNA Does Not Favor Left-Handed Amino Acids, Study Finds
The search for the universe’s dark matter could end tomorrow—given a nearby supernova and a little luck. The nature of dark matter has eluded astronomers… Read More »Astronomers Bet on Supernova to Unmask Dark Matter
WOH G64 is an enormous star located about 160,000 light-years away in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a small satellite galaxy of the Milky Way. This… Read More »Astronomers Capture Unprecedented Details of Dying Star WOH G64