'Space pups': Mouse sperm stored on ISS produces healthy young
Turns out the comic books were wrong.
Molecular & Computational biology
Jun 12, 2021
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News tagged with internal temperature
A new Goldilocks for habitable planets
The search for habitable, alien worlds needs to make room for a second "Goldilocks," according to a Yale University researcher.
Astronomy
Aug 19, 2016
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What is the smallest planet? (It's not Pluto.) Taking a closer look at planet sizes.
As elementary schoolers, we learned the order of the planets. Maybe your teacher even had a snappy mnemonic like "My Very Educated Mother Just Served Us Nine Pizzas" or "My Very Educated Mother Just Served Us Nachos" after ...
Planetary Sciences
Sep 12, 2022
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Measurements of dinosaur body temperatures shed new light on 150-year debate
Were dinosaurs really fast, aggressive hunters like the ones depicted in the movie "Jurassic World"? Or did they have lower metabolic rates that made them move more like today's alligators and crocodiles? For 150 years, scientists ...
Archaeology
Oct 13, 2015
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Three positive climate developments
While humanity's efforts to curb planet-warming emissions are nowhere near enough to avoid heating the world to catastrophic levels, tentative improvements show that progress is possible.
Environment
Nov 24, 2023
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Study finds starfish shed arms to protect against overheating
(Phys.org) —A team of marine biologists has found that some starfish lose a leg when faced with too-warm environmental conditions. In their paper published in The Journal of Experimental Biology, the researchers describe ...
The coldest spot in the known universe
Everyone knows that space is cold. In the vast gulf between stars and galaxies, the temperature of gaseous matter routinely drops to 3 Kelvin, or 454 degrees below zero Fahrenheit.
Astronomy
Feb 3, 2014
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New, faster method to measure global warming shows no acceleration or slowdown
In a recent study published in Nature Communications, international scientists have taken on a persistent problem in climate science: near-term climate evolution.
Environment
Mar 30, 2022
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On the road to fault-tolerant quantum computing: High temperature superconductivity in a toplogical insulator
Reliable quantum computing would make it possible to solve certain types of extremely complex technological problems millions of times faster than today's most powerful supercomputers. Other types of problems that quantum ...
Quantum Physics
Sep 16, 2013
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NASA lander captures marsquakes, other Martian sounds
NASA's InSight lander on Mars has captured the low rumble of marsquakes and a symphony of other otherworldly sounds.
Space Exploration
Oct 1, 2019
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