These Seals are Singing for Science
As you may have noticed, a number of bird species have proven capable of mimicking snippets of sound they overhear, be it a melody, the wail of an ambulance or a dirty phrase...
A treadmill that trips you… for science
As part of research on how to make better prosthetic legs, Vanderbilt University engineers put people on a treadmill and made them stumble. Over and over. By better...
At-a-glance map of current planetary exploration spacecraft
Emily Lakdawalla and her colleagues at one of my favorite science nonprofits The Planetary Society prepared this fascinating map titled “Where We Are: An At-A-Glance...
Planetary Influence
Finding exoplanets with rich biodiversity
Scientists will have to revise their estimates of the number of planets outside our solar system, which can maintain the rich biodiversity that we are familiar with on Earth,...
The hunt for inhabited planets in the Alpha Centauri system
A new exoplanet search tool mounted on the Very Large Telescope (VLT) of the European Southern Observatory (ESO) in Chile begins 100-hour observations of the nearest Alpha...
Anomalies in the thermal radiation of the universe
The polarization map of the CMB, the most ancient light emitted only 380,000 years after the Big Bang, did not reveal the mysterious cosmic anomalies appearing on the...
Radio emission from a plasma bridge connecting galaxy clusters
Observing two merging clusters of galaxies Abell 0399 and Abell 0401, a billion light-years away from Earth, astronomers recorded radio emission from a plasma bridge...