In this image made from NASA video, United Launch Alliance’s Vulcan rocket with Astrobotic Technology’s lander onboard is launched from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, Monday, Jan 8, 2024. The first U.S. lunar lander in more than 50 years rocketed toward the moon Monday, launching private companies on a space race to make … Read more
LONDON — Roy Calne, a pioneer of organ transplantation who led Europe’s first liver transplant operation in 1968, has died aged 93. Calne’s family said he died late Saturday in Cambridge, England, where he was professor emeritus of surgery at Cambridge University. Born in 1930, Calne trained as a doctor at Guy’s Hospital in London … Read more
Police officers remove the debris from a fire at a market in Wajima, Ishikawa prefecture, Japan Saturday, Jan. 6, 2024. A series of powerful quakes set off a large fire in the town of Wajima, as well as tsunamis and landslides in the region. Credit: Kyodo News via AP Aftershocks threatened to bury more homes … Read more
In this image provided by Coleman Fredricks, coal miners unearthed a mammoth tusk in May 2023 at the Freedom Mine near Beulah, N.D. The large scoop of an electric shovel dug the tusk out of the earth and dropped it into a truck, which later dumped the load, revealing the tusk. The North Dakota Geologic … Read more
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Over the last months, the raison d’être of winter sports has been threatened more than ever by a range of challenges and controversies. From the occupation by activists of the glacier of Girose, Southeastern France, to protest against plans for a new cable car, to doubts over whether to hold pre-season … Read more
A Petri dish transforms into a canvas in Ph.D. student Hadley Hanson’s painting of macrophages engulfing cancer cells. Credit: Hadley Hanson Scientists have solved a cellular murder mystery nearly 25 years after the case went cold. Following a trail of evidence from fruit flies to mice to humans revealed that cannibalistic cells likely cause a … Read more
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A paper published in Nature Communications Biology contributes to the growing appreciation for the outsize role that microbes play in everything from human digestion to crop yields: Microbes in the soil—fungi in this case—appear to be influencing forest diversity on a global scale. Forests on Earth exhibit a marked gradient from … Read more
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain India’s solar observation mission on Saturday entered the Sun’s orbit after a four-month journey, the latest success for the space exploration ambitions of the world’s most populous nation. The Aditya-L1 mission was launched in September and is carrying an array of instruments to measure and observe the Sun’s outermost layers. India’s … Read more
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Using novel comparative riverscape genomics, biologists at the University of Arkansas surveyed 31 fish species from 75 locations in the White River Basin in Arkansas. Their study revealed a complex network of relations and adaptations that define aquatic communities in rivers and will help biologists plan conservation and ecosystem management. The … Read more
Anoxia begets anoxia: A positive feedback to the deoxygenation of temperate lakes Credit: M. Lau Anoxia threatens inland waters worldwide. Once it has occurred in a lake, the lack of oxygen even sets in motion a downward spiral that accelerates with increasing global warming. This is indicated by the results of an international study involving … Read more
