As monarch butterflies vanish, researchers investigate road salt as culprit and cure

A monarch butterfly had just emerged from its chrysalis when Emilie Snell-Rood reached into its cage,…

What drives plate tectonics?

Plate tectonics was founded in the late 1960s, and it concerns the distribution and movements of…

Affordable multiferroic material

Toyohashi University of Technology has developed a novel liquid process for fabrication of an affordable multiferroic…

Eminent scientist's 160-year-old theories aid light wave discovery

A previously unknown type of light wave has been discovered by researchers, based on the pioneering…

ESA spacecraft dodges large constellation

Click here for original story, ESA spacecraft dodges large constellation Source:…

Biomarker predicts if someone infected with malaria will get sick

Increased p53, the well-known tumor-suppressor protein, can predict whether malaria-infected children will develop fever or other…

Why fruit flies eat practically anything

Researchers uncover why some organisms can eat anything — ‘generalists — and others have strict diets…

An astonishing parabola trick: Unusual magnetic behavior

Prospective digital data storage devices rely on novel fundamental magnetic phenomena. The better we understand these…

New whale species discovered along the coast of Hokkaido

A new beaked whale species Berardius minimus, which has been long postulated by local whalers in…

PIA23416: Elysium Fossae

           Target: Mars Mission:  2001 Mars Odyssey Instrument:  THEMIS Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU Click here…