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Energetic winds from a distant X-ray source

A team of astronomers were studying GRS 1716-249, an object believed to host a black hole. A wind of gas flowing out of it can be seen in visible light, making it the sixth object of its class to have shown this feature till date.

Mysterious gas found near Milky Way’s center

A mysterious cold gas shooting out of the center of the Milky Way galaxy has left scientists puzzled.

A peek into stellar childhood: How do stars grow?

Maybe you didn't have a stellar childhood, but stars definitely did. (Get it?) Learn about a major research project that investigated one mechanism involved in how stars get bigger.

How stars can limit life in the universe

For the past few decades, scientists have been looking at planets outside of our solar system to see if they could host life. Now, scientists have discovered another factor for habitability: radiation from the planet’s central star.

Could Life Thrive on Radiation? Scientists Say It’s Possible

All life on Earth survives because of the sun. Plants use a process called photosynthesis to transfer energy from the Sun’s rays into the sugars that build their stems and leaves. Animals either eat the plants directly, or eat other animals that have eaten plants. Countless other organisms, like bacteria, algae, and…

How water shaped the Earth

Posted on November 21, 2020April 1, 2021 by Romulo Cruz 204 views

Water has molded our planet into what it is today, in ways you may not have imagined! #water #waterislife

Could “Fools’ Gold” have helped build the first proteins?

Posted on September 21, 2020January 15, 2021 by Marcos Jusino-Maldonado 95 views

How and why humans exist are questions that have challenged different cultures ever since the dawn of civilization. Many scientists have taken upon their…

What beached whales can teach us about antibiotic resistance

Posted on September 17, 2020January 15, 2021 by Ma. Francesca Santiago 145 views

Researchers found that more than half of the bacteria collected from stranded cetaceans in the Philippines showed antimicrobial resistance to commonly used…

Deep-sea mining impacts on diverse ocean ecosystems

Posted on September 1, 2020April 7, 2021 by ACorpolongo 109 views

Sunlight does not reach the deepest parts of the ocean, but life still thrives in the darkness. Below depths of 200 meters, where sunlight cannot reach, some…

Can parts of our immune system lead to a cure for cancer? New genetically engineered natural killer T-cells called "chimeric antigen receptor T-cells" may lead to a cost-effective, less toxic cancer treatment.

Posted on May 6, 2021May 6, 2021 by Mary D'Angelo 378 views

What if your own immune system cells could be genetically engineered to treat your cancer? The future is now!

How tumor cells control their environment to survive Tumor cell diversity and the cells’ ability to reprogram their environment are important in predicting survival rates in patients with liver cancer. Scientists now have a way to measure and understand tumor cell diversity on a cell by cell basis.

Posted on May 3, 2021May 3, 2021 by Lea Peterson 299 views

Why are some cancers harder to fight than others? By analyzing the cells of one of the most difficult cancers to treat, liver cancer, scientists may begin to have answers.

What the velociraptor’s brain tells us about its diet Velociraptor was not just a speedy hunter capable of running down food. Its diet was also flexible.

Posted on April 30, 2021April 30, 2021 by LoganKing 388 views

The brain of one of popular culture’s most infamous dinosaurs helps to clarify its diet and hearing range.

A new way to detect ET life using chemical profiles Rather than detecting one chemical at a time, scientists taught machine learning algorithms what different mixtures of compounds from living and non-living sources “look like” to chemical analyzers. The computer then used those fingerprints to correctly identify living and non-living samples in the lab!

Posted on April 26, 2021April 26, 2021 by Jim Cleaves 122 views

Researchers found a new way to tell the difference between the chemicals of life and the chemicals of non-life...using machine learning!

For the first time, large self-replicating molecules win evolution When two competing self-replicators are allowed to reach equilibrium, it is the smaller one that wins. But, when "fueling" is used to keep the system out of equilibrium, like in real life, it is the more complex one that wins.

Posted on April 22, 2021April 22, 2021 by Shuo Yang and Omer Markovitch 428 views

How can molecules evolve to become more complex, to the point that smaller ones might eventually become large, complex, biological organisms?

More human stuff than all living biomass? 2020 marks another critical turning point in our history. We will have made more things than there is living biomass on Earth.

Posted on April 19, 2021April 19, 2021 by Tammy Witzens 336 views

Humanity grows and nature gets smaller. Earth now has more human-made stuff than all living #biomass. But how do we even measure something like that?

What happens when astronaut teams don’t get along? A researcher at NASA is interested in studying crew dynamics in the extreme environment of long term space flight to help keep everybody sane, healthy, and productive.

Posted on April 15, 2021April 15, 2021 by Jessica Snyder 394 views

Professor Contractor Noshir knows how to help you get along better with your coworkers. He studies the interpersonal dynamics of crews in extreme environments, like a 3 year mission to Mars!

Helping plants adapt to spaceflight stress To help plants deal with microgravity stress, scientists may be able to manipulate the gene involved in using red light to make ribosomes for the cell.

Posted on April 12, 2021April 9, 2021 by Lauren Sanders 190 views

How can astronauts grow plants in space, or farm on Mars? This is the subject of much ongoing research, and one study found that activating a key cellular process using red light may be a big part of the answer. Because plants can’t move around the way animals can, they have to be very flexible and adaptive to…

A software program builds alternative DNA molecules Scientists are using computer programs to build alternative DNA molecules called XNAs. These XNAs will teach us what is possible for life!

Posted on April 7, 2021April 7, 2021 by Rachel Holland 418 views

Scientists are using computer programs to understand our early beginnings. Click on the link to see how they are doing it, and how they might discover the genetic chemistry of life in the cosmos!

Does science have anything to say about cancel culture? When we remove negative events from our environment, we begin to subconsciously identify neutral and positive events as negative.

Posted on March 22, 2021April 2, 2021 by Justin Dingman 616 views

Whether it’s cartoons, advertisement strategies, rappers, or even podcasts, in the last few years Americans have been speaking out and stepping up to combat perceived unethical and immoral behavior. There is a growing polarization developing between those for and against this new cultural shift. But why?