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The Pando aspen clone as seen from a distance (green foreground and middle -- not yellow). The photo captures about ½ the total grove. A close look reveals many dead trees on the ground. Foreground depicts successful regeneration; middle green shows dying forest with little new growth. (Lance Oditt, Studio 47.60° North - with permission)

Earth’s Largest Organism is Deteriorating

October 19, 2018

Researchers in Utah say what many consider to be the world’s largest living organism is dying but could be saved with what they call a ‘mega-conservation’ effort. The Pando aspen clone looks like a forest of trees, but since each of the trees is linked by common genetic markers and possibly one giant root system, […]

A herd of deer at night (lovecatz via Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic and Flickr)

Humans Cause Animals to Become More Nocturnal

June 20, 2018

A new study led by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, found evidence that we humans are causing the world’s mammals to become more nocturnal. Published in the journal, Science, the new study is said to be the first to determine the impact humanity is having on the day-to-day activities of wildlife around the […]

Blood pressure reading (©American Heart Association)

Survey: Tea or Pills over Exercise and Shots for High Blood Pressure Treatment

April 9, 2018

A new study reveals that when choosing a preferred treatment method for high blood pressure, they’d rather pop a pill or drink a cup of tea than exercise or get a shot. The American Heart Association says uncontrolled high blood pressure puts you at risk for serious and potentially deadly cardiac health issues like heart […]

Neanderthal Man (Michael Brace via Flickr/Creative Commons - Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.0)

Neanderthals May Have Been Caring and Compassionate

March 15, 2018

When you think of a Neanderthal (Homo neanderthalensis) what comes to mind – a crude, brutish and uncaring caveman type of individual? According to a new analysis by researchers at the UK’s University of York, that stereotype may not necessarily be true. In a study published in the journal, World Archeology, the researchers provide evidence […]

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 […]

Holding hands. (Sneha ss via Wikimedia Commons/Creative Commons 4.0)

Holding Hands May Help Ease Pain

March 8, 2018

The proverb “love heals all wounds” may have some new scientific support. Researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder and Israel’s University of Haifa say they have found evidence that when one romantic partner holds hands with a partner in pain, the couple’s breathing, heart rate, and brainwaves will synchronize and will help the afflicted […]

The researchers found that the Danger Islands have 751,527 pairs of Adélie penguins--more than the rest of the entire Antarctic Peninsula region combined. (Michael Polito, ©Louisiana State University)

Scientists Spot Penguin “Supercolony”

March 7, 2018

Penguins are among the most common birds in Antarctica. Of all the Antarctic penguin species, only two – the Adélie and Emperor are known to breed along the shorelines and islands that surround the entire continent. A new study led by researchers from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution outlines the discovery of a previously unknown […]

Cheesburger and French Fries (Marco Verch/Creative Commons 2.0 via Flickr)

Junk Food Puts Immune System Into Overdrive

February 28, 2018

An international group of scientists has found that eating junk food could impact our immune system’s ability to fight disease. Detailing their findings in a new study published by the journal Cell, the researchers, led by the University of Bonn, found evidence that our body’s defense system, reacts the same way to high-calorie foods packed […]

This illustration shows what the Milky Way and the Andromeda galaxy might look like 4 billion years from now during the merger of the two galaxies. (ICRAR)

Milky Way and Andromeda Galaxies Have the Same Mass

February 16, 2018

In 2012, NASA astronomers predicted that our Milky Way galaxy will collide and merge with its neighboring Andromeda galaxy in about 4 billion years. Scientists said that when this galactic collision takes place, Andromeda, which was thought to be two to three times the size of the Milky Way – will completely engulf our galaxy. Now, […]

This time-lapse video, assembled from a set of Hubble Space Telescope photos, reveals two asteroids orbiting each other that have comet-like features. The asteroid pair, called 2006 VW139/288P, was observed in September 2016, just before the asteroid made its closest approach to the Sun. (NASA, ESA, and J. DePasquale and Z. Levay (STScI))

60 Days in Bed For Science; Asteroid Belt Mystery Solved & Ice on Mercury?

September 22, 2017

Mystery Asteroid Belt Object Really a Binary Asteroid Back in 2011 a Panoramic Survey Telescope and Rapid Response System or PanSTARRS survey detected an object in the asteroid belt displaying comet-like activity. So along with being labeled an asteroid, when it was discovered five years earlier, scientists also gave it a comet designation. After analyzing […]

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