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Scientists uncover what may be the 1st branch on the tree of life
Read More: Scientists uncover what may be the 1st branch on the tree of lifeBiologists have long drawn the animal family tree with a hazy base, unsure which creature first split from the common…
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NASA faces 1 in 2,700 killer asteroid threat. Here’s the stop plan
Read More: NASA faces 1 in 2,700 killer asteroid threat. Here’s the stop planThe asteroid Bennu carries a small but very real chance of slamming into Earth in the next few centuries, with…
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Is the US on the brink of losing its measles-free status?
Read More: Is the US on the brink of losing its measles-free status?Measles, once declared eliminated in the United States, is again spreading fast enough that global health authorities are reassessing the…
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Americans unknowingly planted vast forests of explosive Australian trees
Read More: Americans unknowingly planted vast forests of explosive Australian treesAcross the American West, what looks like a leafy success story of fast-growing shade and windbreaks is doubling as a…
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This common virus hits almost everyone, but why do only a few get crushed?
Read More: This common virus hits almost everyone, but why do only a few get crushed?The common cold is so ubiquitous that it feels like background noise, yet for a subset of people it is…
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Fresh cosmic data hints the universe isn’t expanding the way we thought
Read More: Fresh cosmic data hints the universe isn’t expanding the way we thoughtFor a generation, cosmologists have worked with a simple story: the universe is not only expanding, it is expanding faster…
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Hubble’s peek inside Andromeda revealed something truly disturbing
Read More: Hubble’s peek inside Andromeda revealed something truly disturbingWhen astronomers pointed Hubble deep into our neighboring galaxy, they were not just chasing a prettier postcard of the night…
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New warp bubble using normal matter throws relativity back into the spotlight
Read More: New warp bubble using normal matter throws relativity back into the spotlightFor more than a century, Einstein’s relativity has set a hard speed limit for the universe, with light as the…
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Laser blast flips magnet’s polarity instantly without heating it up
Read More: Laser blast flips magnet’s polarity instantly without heating it upA single, ultrafast laser pulse has flipped the polarity of a ferromagnet without first heating it to the brink of…
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Frozen Earth twin candidate found hiding in old Kepler telescope data
Read More: Frozen Earth twin candidate found hiding in old Kepler telescope dataAstronomers have pulled a frozen, Earth-sized world out of archival data from the retired Kepler Space Telescope, revealing a planet…
