Flashlight Fish and their Glow-In-The-Dark Friends
Animals are unable to tell us why they do the things they do, and curious scientists often want to find out. They set up experiments to see…
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Bacteria-Powered Battery Helps Remove Lake Pollution
Nitrogen pollution is a big problem in standing water such as lakes and ponds. The nitrogen comes from many sources, often agricultural…
Water found outside of the solar system
51 Pegasi b is a roughly jupiter-sized planet around a star pretty similar to our sun. This planet has been part of astronomy conversations…
Two Galaxy Centers in Terrifyingly Fast Orbits
At the center of the Milky Way Galaxy, there is a supermassive black hole. This is normal — at the center of almost every galaxy there is…
Bacterial Cell Not as Simple as Previously Thought
When we first learn about cells in biology, we are taught that bacterial cells are simple, and animal and plant cells are more complex.…
Seven Earth-sized Planets Found
Today, Nature published the landmark discovery of a system of seven planets around a star named TRAPPIST-1 about 40 light years away. This…
Unveiling the Mysteries of Spiral Galaxy Arms
Galaxies come in all shapes, sizes, and colors. Many galaxies are in the shape of spirals, including our own Milky Way Galaxy. The movement…
Short, Tall, or Average: It’s in Your DNA
Genes are bundles of DNA that exist in your cells that affect how you look, grow, and age. Since the human genome was fully decoded…
The Age and Fate of the Orion Nebular Cloud
Stars and planets are most often categorized by their mass. In astronomy, the “initial mass function” is used for this categorization.…
Life Under a Black Sun
Did you know that a black hole is a kind of star? What would it really be like if our sun, also a star, was a black hole?