A cruise ship docked in Brooklyn over the weekend with a horrific passenger on its bow: the 50,000-pound carcass of an endangered sei whale. The death of the 44-foot-long adult …
Rajeev Ranjan, a postdoctoral researcher in horticulture and landscape design, analyzed transgenic Arabidopsis seeds with higher oil content to confirm that other important agronomic traits, including seed size and number …
The rotation of galaxies has long puzzled scientists.Image credit: NASA/James Webb Telescope One of the biggest mysteries in astrophysics today is that the forces in galaxies don’t seem to add …
In less than five years, a 1,000-foot-wide (305-meter-wide) asteroid named after the Egyptian god of chaos and destruction, Apophis, will pass within 30,000 miles (48,300 kilometers) of Earth. Scientists don’t …
SJSU Environmental Studies Professor Dustin Mulvaney stands at the SAP Center on Thursday, May 2, 2024, in San Jose, California. Contaminated lands and other areas, large-scale solar panels are not …
Good morning. It’s Friday and we’re taking a look at a closely watched peregrine falcon nest in lower Manhattan. We’ll also detail how former Gov. Andrew Cuomo scored another victory …
Monitoring fish populations begins with sequencing the species’ genome, a process that reveals to scientists the exact role of each part of an organism’s DNA. Adobe Stock Researchers at Texas …
The region near the center of the Milky Way (labeled). Image credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/Univ. Chicago/SC Mackey, etc.; Radio: NRF/SARAO/MeerKAT; Image processing: NASA/CXC/SAO/N.Volcker Astronomers used NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory to find …
If you’ve been to a grocery store in the last year, you’ve likely seen a single-use plastic bag replaced with another reusable bag (also made of plastic, but we’ll get …
Various driving mechanisms affecting hydrodynamic escape from low-mass exoplanets. Image source: Chinese Academy of Sciences/Guo Jianheng. A study published in natural astronomy The study, led by Jianheng Guo of the …