Deforestation, erosion exacerbate mercury spikes near Peruvian gold mining

Scientists from Duke University have developed a model that can predict the amount of mercury being…

Model simulation experiments give scientists a clearer understanding of factors that influence monsoon behavior

Monsoons can have a significant impact on human populations all around the world, bringing heavy rainfall…

Team finds bovine kobuvirus in US

A virus that afflicts cattle that was first discovered in Japan in 2003 has made its…

PIA23608: A Sixth Cyclone Has Joined the Configuration of Circumpolar Cyclones at Jupiter's South Pole

           Target: Jupiter Mission:  Juno Instrument:  JunoCam Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS Click here for original…

PIA23607: White Spot Z

           Target: Jupiter Mission:  Juno Instrument:  JunoCam Image Credit: Image data: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSSImage processing by Björn Jónsson, ©…

PIA23606: The Great Red Spot

           Target: Jupiter Mission:  Juno Instrument:  JunoCam Image Credit: Image data: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSSImage processing by Kevin M. Gill,…

PIA23605: Exotic Marble

           Target: Jupiter Mission:  Juno Instrument:  JunoCam Image Credit: Image data: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSSImage processing by Prateek Sarpal, ©…

RUAG Space contributed with electronics and tests to CHEOPS space telescope

RUAG Space contributed with electronics and tests to CHEOPS space telescope Click here for…

Novel study underscores microbial individuality

A single drop of seawater can contain a wide representation of ocean microbes from around the…

NASA's NICER delivers best-ever pulsar measurements, first surface map

Astrophysicists are redrawing the textbook image of pulsars, the dense, whirling remains of exploded stars, thanks…