Scientists reveal how just two human decisions rewired the Great Salt Lake forever
Over the past 8,000 years, Utah's Great Salt Lake has been sensitive to changes in climate and water inflow. Now,...
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Scientists just made vibrations so precise they can spot a single molecule
Just as overlapping ripples on a pond can amplify or cancel each other out, waves of many kinds -- including...
Blood pressure cuff errors may be missing 30% of hypertension cases
Researchers have found why common cuff-based blood pressure readings are inaccurate and how they might be improved, which could improve...
Giant Einstein ring reveals one of the Universe’s biggest black holes
Astronomers have discovered potentially the most massive black hole ever detected. The cosmic behemoth is close to the theoretical upper...
Baby star fires a jet, then gets blasted by the fallout
Astronomers have observed an explosion in space that is pushing back against and influencing the baby star which triggered the...
This star survived its own supernova and shined even brighter
Rich with detail, the spiral galaxy NGC 1309 shines in this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope Picture of the Week. NGC...
After 50 years, scientists finally catch elusive neutrinos near a reactor
Neutrinos are extremely elusive elementary particles. Day and night, 60 billion of them stream from the Sun through every square...
400-million-year-old fish exposes big mistake in how we understood evolution
The coelacanth is known as a "living fossil" because its anatomy has changed little in the last 65 million years....
Ivermectin: The mosquito-killing pill that dropped malaria by 26%
Ivermectin administered to the whole population significantly reduces malaria transmission, offering new hope in the fight against the disease. The...
Snowless winter? Arctic field team finds flowers and meltwater instead
A new commentary published in Nature Communications by Dr James Bradley, Reader in Environmental Science at Queen Mary University of...
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