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A bee gathers nectar from a flower (Photo: BitHead Via Creative Commons @ Flickr)

Bees Take a Break During Total Solar Eclipse

October 12, 2018

On August 21st, 2017 a total solar eclipse traveled a north-west to south-east path across the United States. Some even called the event the “Great American Eclipse”. A number of researchers from various scientific disciplines used the occasion to conduct experiments. Researchers at the University of Missouri, led by Candace Galen, Ph.D., a professor of […]

Found: The “Mother of All Lizards and Snakes”

June 1, 2018

Back in 2003, scientists uncovered an odd looking, tiny lizard-like fossil in the Dolomites, a mountain range in Northern Italy, which is also a part of the Alps. Silvio Renesto and Renato Posenato wrote of the discovery in the Italian science journal Research In Paleontology and Stratigraphy. An international team of paleontologists then set out to […]

Tongue and taste buds. (Saurabh R. Patil/Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported via Wikimedia Commons)

Obesity May Dull Sense of Taste

March 23, 2018

A new study published in the journal PLOS Biology supports past research that suggests the more weight you gain the less you are able to taste the food you eat. The study, based on research with mice, suggests that obesity-driven inflammation actually reduced the number of their taste buds on their tongues. There are 50 […]

Diamond crystal in kimberlite matrix. (James St. John via Flickr/Creative Commons 2.0)

Diamonds Provide Evidence of Liquid Water Deep Inside Earth

March 13, 2018

Take a diamond with impurities to a jeweler, and you will probably be told it is worth little or nothing. But some impure diamonds that pushed up to the surface from the Earth’s interior in China, the Republic of South Africa, and Botswana are priceless to a group of scientists, who studied them. The researchers […]

Fake News Graffiti, Friargate Railway Station, Derby, UK (Eamon Curry via Flickr/Creative Commons 2.0)

Study: Lies Spread Quicker and Farther Than Truth

March 12, 2018

Over the years the Internet and social media have proved themselves valuable resources for our daily lives. In tandem, the two have provided us with an invaluable means of communication, allowing us to gather and share a wide range of information. But the Internet along with social media platforms, like Facebook and Twitter, have also […]

This artist’s concept depicts the early Martian environment (right) – believed to contain liquid water and a thicker atmosphere – versus the cold, dry environment seen at Mars today (left). (NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center)

New Horizons Journey; Wrong Way Asteroid; Ring Around Mars?

April 4, 2017

New Horizons Halfway to Next Flyby Destination NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft provided scientists an amazing once in a lifetime look at the distant dwarf planet Pluto as it flew by it in July 2015. Along with spectacular images of Pluto the spacecraft also sent back those of Pluto’s five moons including high definition shots of […]

Simulated image of the HD 106906 stellar debris disk, showing a ring of rocky planet-forming material. (Erika Nesvold/Carnegie Institution for Science)

Insight Into Planetary Evolution – Dark Matter Rare in Old Galaxies

March 17, 2017

Scientists Gain New Insight into Planetary Evolution Scientists recently gained new insight into the evolution of planet formation by creating and studying a model of a fairly young solar system 300 light years from Earth. The nearly 13 million year-old planetary system circles a star known as HD 106906. The system features a surrounding planet […]

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