Tracing the ‘Green Sahara’ in Chad’s northern desert
A cloud of dust escapes from an excavation site in the sand of Chad’s arid north, where scientists are looking for signs of human habitation in an area once humid and called the “Green Sahara.”
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Does painting cows with stripes prevent fly bites? Researchers who studied this wins Ig Nobel prize
A team of researchers from Japan wondered if painting cows with zebra-like stripes would prevent flies from biting them. Another group from Africa and Europe pondered the types of pizza lizards preferred to eat.
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Scientists just found the hidden cosmic fingerprints of dark matter
Scientists at Rutgers and collaborators have traced the invisible dark matter scaffolding of the universe using over 100,000 Lyman-alpha emitting galaxies. By studying how these galaxies clustered across three eras shortly after the Big Bang, they mapped dark matter concentrations,…
Cosmic simulations that once needed supercomputers now run on a laptop
Astronomers have long relied on supercomputers to simulate the immense structure of the Universe, but a new tool called Effort.jl is changing that. By mimicking the behavior of complex cosmological models, this emulator delivers results with the same accuracy —…
Could plastic in your food be fueling Azheimer’s?
Plastic particles from everyday items like Styrofoam cups and take-out containers are finding their way into the brain, where they may trigger Alzheimer’s-like symptoms. New research shows that mice carrying the Alzheimer’s-linked APOE4 gene who consumed microplastics exhibited sex-dependent cognitive…
Early humans may have walked from Turkey to mainland Europe, research suggests
Continuous landmasses, now submerged, may have made it possible for early humans to cross between present-day Turkey and Europe, new research of this largely unexplored region reveals.
Where are all the ‘hot Neptune’ exoplanets? Orbital chaos may have booted them out
A new program has discovered chaos in a nearby planetary system, which could explain the existence of a phenomenon astronomers call the hot-Neptunian desert.
‘It was the realization of a dream that we had chased for decades.’ Powerful cosmic winds around neutron star reveal secrets of monster black holes
Mysteriously powerful cosmic winds around neutron star may be ‘game-changer’ for understanding monster black holes
From Supercomputers to Wind Tunnels: NASA’s Road to Artemis II
5 Min Read From Supercomputers to Wind Tunnels: NASA’s Road to Artemis II Of the many roads leading to successful Artemis missions, one is paved with high-tech computing chips called superchips. Along the way, a partnership between NASA wind tunnel…