Category: 9. Sci-Tech

Sometime in the Middle Eocene epoch, nearly 50 million years ago, a large object hurtled through Earth’s atmosphere, crashing into the North Sea between what’s now Britain and northwestern Europe.

The impact formed a crater 1 kilometer (about…

What type of lander could touch down on Jupiter’s volcanic moon, Io? This is what a recent paper presented at the AIAA 2025 Regional Student Conference hopes to address as a team of student engineers from Spartan Space Systems at San…

Strong Northern Lights-like activity is the standout feature of today’s weather report, which is coming at you from a strange, extrasolar world, instead of a standard TV studio. That is thanks to astronomers from Trinity College Dublin, who…

Reposted from the College of Science.

The amino acid glycine is an important neurotransmitter that regulates memory, reflex and brain development, and it may also be a biomarker for bacterial virulence. Of the 20 standard amino acids,…

Physicist George Smoot told a packed press conference in 1992, “If you’re religious, it’s like seeing God.”

He was referring to the cosmic microwave background, which he and colleague John Mather imaged with NASA’s Cosmic…

Before forests, animals, or even breathable air, Earth was a completely different place. Over two billion years ago, the planet’s atmosphere held almost no oxygen.

What we now call life had to survive in conditions that would be toxic to most…

Mammoths are among the most iconic Ice Age animals. In North America, two main species lived side by side: the woolly mammoth in colder northern regions, and the Columbian mammoth across warmer southern landscapes.

Scientists once thought these…

A new algorithm capable of transforming ground-based telescope images by removing the blurring effect of the atmosphere to produce as perfect an image as possible has successfully completed tests on the eight-meter Subaru Telescope on Hawaii’s…