Astronomers have discovered that our galaxy may be bigger than we first thought. A new model of the Milky Way has revealed that our galaxy is wider than we thought, according to a new paper in the journal Natural astronomy. The researchers found that the bulge at the center of our galaxy is less densely … Read more
Source: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Childhood temperatures and community connectedness can help predict how U.S. residents set their thermostats, offering new ways to promote energy conservation and combat climate change, according to a study published July 3 in the journal PLOS Climate by Dritjon Gruda of the National University of Ireland Maynooth and Paul Hanges of … Read more
Earth may be swimming in an ocean of dark matter, according to new theoretical research. Waves in that invisible ocean, lapping against our planet’s upper atmosphere, may generate detectable radio waves that could finally help us find this elusive part of the universe. A wealth of astrophysical and cosmological evidence points to the existence of … Read more
Once upon a time, there were many giants living in our world. Actually, it wasn’t that long ago. Once the dinosaurs had had their day, our planet was home to a whole new range of gigantic animals, from human-sized sloths to woolly mammoths to enormous wombats and kangaroos to the magnificent giant goose. Between about … Read more
Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news about fascinating discoveries, scientific developments and more. Grapes have played an important role in human history for thousands of years, forming the basis for the wines our ancestors made thousands of years ago. But that might not have been the case if … Read more
The tiny roundworm C. elegans is the subject of a new study examining 3’UTRs. These short segments of RNA play a crucial role in regulating genes. The resulting map, the product of 20 years of research, is the most complete dataset of its kind for any animal and will help advance our understanding of gene … Read more
Credit: Harrison Haines from Pexels The remarkable aurora in early May of this year showed the power that solar storms can emit as radiation, but every now and then the sun does something much more destructive. These explosions of protons, which come directly from the sun’s surface and are known as “solar particle events,” can … Read more
One of the largest areas of interconnected glaciers in North America is melting twice as fast as before 2010, a team of scientists reported Tuesday, calling it an “exceptionally troubling” sign that land ice could be disappearing even faster in many places than previously thought. The Juneau Ice Field, which stretches across the Coast Mountains … Read more
The remarkable aurora in early May of this year showed the power that solar storms can emit as radiation, but every now and then the sun does something much more destructive. These explosions of protons, fired directly from the sun’s surface and shooting out into space like a searchlight, are known as “solar particle events.” … Read more
VLITE 340 MHz image of GLIMPSE-C01 from February 27, 2021. The clean beam is shown as a white ellipse in the lower left corner and has dimensions of 5 0 × 4 7 with a position angle of 52°. The cross indicates the central position of GLIMPSE-C01. The dashed white circle shows the core radius … Read more