Science News
SpaceX successfully launched its first crewed mission at 1922 UTC yesterday from Kennedy Space Center in Florida, US with NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley in a Crew Dragon capsule atop a Falcon 9 rocket. »
A second wave of desert locusts in Africa and Asia is threatening famine for millions as critical resources are directed towards the COVID-19 crisis, scientists warn. »
Scientists use genomics, archaeology, and climate data to reconstruct history of rice. »
Scientists found significant benefit to the environment and to crop yield in no-till agriculture. »
Chia is considered a pseudocereal commonly used as food in several countries of South America, Mexico, and the United States. »
Scientists have discovered that bumblebees can cause plants to flower as much as 30 days ahead of schedule by biting their leaves. »
To find out, scientists shake up balancing act of plant metabolism. »
Newly developed robots can move quickly on solid surfaces or in water. »
In a recently published study, researchers at the University of Hawaii at Manoa revealed the largest and hottest shield volcano on Earth. »
An Agricultural Research Service team in Peoria, Illinois, has devised a procedure for using bacteria to convert glucose from bread waste into value-added products such as ascorbic acid (vitamin C), which is used in everything from food and beverages to pharmaceutical and personal-care products. »
New information helps scientists understand processes that lead to devastating storms. »
Greater tropical rainfall may increase microbes' release of CO2 from soils into air. »
Flowering strip plants generally benefit bee colony reproduction but may bring disease risks. »
Researchers have developed an AI algorithm that can detect and identify different types of brain injuries. »
Researchers describe new species of unique scale worms in the eastern Pacific Ocean. »
Spoiling foods, souring wine and worsening wounds have a common culprit -- a chemical reaction called oxidation. »
Study looked at incidences where humid heat exceeded highest level humans can tolerate. »
A small study suggests that sleep problems among children who have a sibling with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) may further raise the likelihood of an ASD diagnosis, compared to at-risk children who do not have difficulty sleeping. »
A fungus that lives in malaria-carrying mosquitoes could boost global efforts to control the disease, which kills about half a million people — mostly children under five — every year. »
A new freeze-resistant Trichinella species has been discovered in wolverines by Agricultural Research Service scientists and their colleagues. »
Whole body diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (DW MRI) may aid in the assessment of cancer treatment response in children and youth at much lower levels of radiation than current approaches, suggests a small study. »
'Crazy beast' was marooned on Madagascar. »
The surface of Jupiter's moon Europa features a widely varied landscape, including ridges, bands, small rounded domes and disrupted spaces that geologists call "chaos terrain." »
Many coastal communities in the Indonesian archipelago, including the proposed site of the new capital on the island of Borneo, could be at potential tsunami risk from submarine landslides. »
Microneedles target plant tissues for delivery of micronutrients, hormones, or genes. »
Researchers detect some of the earliest evidence for modern plate motion. »
The unique properties of water are understandable only if scientists observe the interaction of its molecules. »
A large near-Earth asteroid will safely pass by our planet on Wednesday morning, providing astronomers with an exceptional opportunity to study the 1.5-mile-wide (2-kilometer-wide) object in great detail. »
Study shows that some people experience creative insights as intrinsically rewarding. »
Simple, low-cost ventilation designs and configuration of wards can reduce the dispersal of airborne virus in emergency COVID-19 hospitals. »
Scientists are warning that an increase in global warming could significantly slow down hurricanes, potentially leading to more destruction. »
New technique may enable molecule-based quantum computing. »
Dust is a key component of Earth's climate system. »
High levels of air pollution may be “one of the most important contributors” to deaths from COVID-19, according to research. »
Cotton producers in the U.S. and around the world looking for new varieties. »
From the tidal marshes along the lower Potomac and James rivers in Maryland and Virginia, comes a newly discovered species of bacteria that could help keep destructive crop pests at bay. »
Liquid meltwater can sometimes flow deep below the Greenland Ice Sheet in winter, not just in summer, according to new research. »
Results help scientists engineer particles that improve biosensors, electronics and chemical reactions. »
Crown-of-thorns starfish (COTS) thrive on coral reefs across the Indo-Pacific. »
Biologists and engineers design 3D printed corals that may help energy production and coral reefs. »
Four fossilized monkey teeth discovered deep in the Peruvian Amazon provide new evidence that more than one group of ancient primates journeyed across the Atlantic Ocean from Africa. »
Plant-derived chemicals called cardenolides have long been used to treat heart disease and have shown potential as cancer therapies. »
N95 respirators can be decontaminated effectively and maintain functional integrity for up to three uses, according to National Institutes of Health scientists. »
Observations made with ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) have revealed for the first time that a star orbiting the supermassive black hole at the centre of the Milky Way moves just as predicted by Einstein’s general theory of relativity. »
Trees that grow fast, live long lives and reproduce slowly account for the bulk of the biomass -- and carbon storage -- in some tropical rainforests. »
Engineers have created a laser treatment method that could potentially turn any metal surface into a rapid bacteria killer—just by giving the metal's surface a different texture. »
Moderate densities of cattle and wild herbivores can sustainably co-exist. »
A new study at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution found that freshwater runoff from rivers and continental shelf sediments is bringing significant quantities of carbon and trace elements, which form essential building blocks for ocean life, into parts of the Arctic Ocean via the Transpolar Drift. »
Researchers find stents, surgery provide higher quality of life for those with chest pain. »
Timing is everything. A fresh example supporting the old saying has been found in systems regulated by biological clocks. Research on circadian rhythms, internal 24-hour patterns that affect sleep-wake and metabolic cycles, has shown that timing is key for human health. »