Here’s Another Use for Ice: Creating Secret Codes
Scientists have devised a way of writing and storing messages by creating patterns of air bubbles in sheets of ice. Source: Original News
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Grand Jury Indicts Russian Scientist on Smuggling Charges
Kseniia Petrova, a Harvard researcher, was detained in February after failing to declare scientific samples she was carrying into the country. Source: Original News
How Two Neuroscientists View Optical Illusions
The Best Illusion of the Year contest offers researchers, and participants, an opportunity to explore the gaps and limits of human perception. Source: Original News
‘Jaws’ at 50: Scientists Are Still Studying the Mysteries of Sharks
The film’s release in 1975 haunted the reputation of sharks worldwide. But a generation of scientists helped to turn the tide. Source: Original News
Vera Rubin Observatory Reveals Telescope’s First Images of Galaxies, Nebulas and Asteroids
Scenes of nebulas in the Milky Way, a cluster of galaxies and thousands of new asteroids are a teaser of how the U.S.-funded observatory on a mountain in Chile will transform astronomy. Source: Original News
Vera Rubin Telescope Quickly Found 1,200 New Asteroids
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory is expected to find millions of unknown objects in our solar system, and perhaps even a mysterious Planet Nine. Source: Original News
Vera Rubin Observatory Brings Universe’s Darkest Mysteries Into Focus
As the Vera C. Rubin Observatory surveys the night sky, astrophysicists expect to unlock the secrets of dark matter, dark energy and cosmic phenomena that go “bang!” Source: Original News
When Humans Learned to Live Everywhere
About 70,000 years ago in Africa, humans expanded into more extreme environments, a new study finds, setting the stage for our global migration. Source: Original News
Scientific Study Shows Bogong Moths Use Sky For Migration
A new study suggests that these Australian insects may be the first invertebrates to use the night sky as a compass during migration. Source: Original News
DNA Discovery Gives Mysterious Ancient Humans a Face
Fifteen years after the discovery of a new type of human, the Denisovan, scientists discovered its DNA in a fossilized skull. The key? Tooth plaque. Source: Original News