Humans use a vast array of pharmaceuticals to stay healthy—what do those drugs and their breakdown products mean for the health of groundwater ecosystems? Credit: SharonDawn/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 Engulfing a pill merely seems to make it disappear. In reality, drugs sooner or later leave your organism and go into waterways, where they can suffer more...
Two interacting galaxies viewed from the Hubble Space Telescope. Credit: NASA/ESA/Hubble Heritage Team A research study led by the College of Southampton has shown how supermassive black holes (SMBHs) are feeding off gas clouds that reach them by traveling hundreds of thousands of light yrs from one galaxy to another. A worldwide team of scientists has...
The world of science is everchanging and progressive. Every day a new scientific discovery is made. Here are some of the most relevant this year: Consumption of Microplastics Can Cause Evolutionary Changes After the non-biting midges of the species Chironomus riparius were exposed to microplastics, the genome of subsequent generations changed. Credit: Markus Pfenninger In April 2022,...
Credit: lifestayleasia The world of technology is everchanging and progressive. All over the world new technology comes to life. Here are some of the most relevant this year: Asteroid deflected The asteroid Dimorphos was the target for this year’s test run of a potential planetary defense system—an impact from a fridge-size spacecraft that successfully altered its orbit....
JWST's new image of NGC 7469. (ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, L. Armus, A. S. Evans) The perfect galaxy photo The James Webb Space Telescope simply gave a spiral galaxy 230 million light-years away a recent sparkling glamor shot excellent sufficient for the Christmas tree. While the galaxy has the instead un-attractive name of NGC 7469, it has been...
Credit: ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, L. Armus, A. S. Evans The photo of the month Webb's photo of the month for December is dominated by NGC 7469, a luminous, face-on spiral galaxy approximately 90,000 light-years in diameter that lies roughly 220 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Pegasus. This spiral galaxy has recently been studied as...
Credit: CC0 Public Domain The outcomes represent an initial step toward developing what scholars expect will become the capacity to foresee whether a slow-moving landslide will fail and slide downhill. Climate modification is leading more volatile precipitation patterns worldwide-- very dry stretches punctuated by storms that drop large quantities of rain or snow in a short...
Macro Woman Eye. Credit: Dantesattic/iStock University of Pennsylvania researchers' ground-breaking form to develop night vision in grown-ups with congenital blindness will bring one spurt to ophthalmology: a gene therapy. As UPenn stated, adults with a genetic way of childhood-onset blindness experienced striking recoveries of night vision within days of receiving experimental gene treatment, according to scientists...
This image, taken with the Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 on board the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, shows the globular cluster Terzan 1. Credit: NASA & ESA, Acknowledgement: Judy Schmidt New picture of the Terzan 1 cluster Whilst the James Webb Space Telescope is already showing fresh insights into the inmost recesses of the visible universe,...
Credit: Environmental Pollution (2022). DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2022.119852 An article released in Environmental Contamination, authored by Saint Louis University (SLU) researchers, demonstrates that human closeness is the best indication of microplastics being located in the Meramec River in Missouri. Something in the water A crew of investigators, carried by Jason Knouft, Ph.D., lecturer of biology, principal researcher with the WATER Institute...
