A better pregnancy test for whales

It’s not easy to do pregnancy tests on whales. You can’t just ask a wild ocean…

Beyond the brim, Sombrero Galaxy's halo suggests turbulent past

Surprising new data from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope suggests the smooth, settled “brim” of the Sombrero…

Three new asteroids flew past Earth within 1 lunar distance

Three newly-discovered asteroids – designated 2020 DU, 2020 DA1, and 2020 DW – flew past Earth…

Fifty years of data show new changes in bird migration

A growing body of research shows that birds’ spring migration has been getting earlier and earlier…

Earliest interbreeding event between ancient human populations discovered

For three years, anthropologist Alan Rogers has attempted to solve an evolutionary puzzle. His research untangles…

Old carbon reservoirs unlikely to cause massive greenhouse gas release

Permafrost in the soil and methane hydrates deep in the ocean are large reservoirs of ancient…

Researchers develop new method to isolate atomic sheets and create new materials

Two-dimensional materials from layered van der Waals (vdW) crystals hold great promise for electronic, optoelectronic, and…

Bumblebees can experience an object using one sense and later recognize it using another

How are we able to find things in the dark? And how can we imagine how…

Media Invited to National Kickoff of NASA's Lunar Surface Innovation Consortium

NASA will kick off the Lunar Surface Innovation Consortium on Friday, Feb. 28. Click…

Beyond the brim, Sombrero Galaxy's halo suggests turbulent past

These latest Hubble observations of the Sombrero galaxy indicate only a tiny fraction of older, metal-poor…