Oldest, Oddest Fungi Finally Photographed
Images of little dots, some wriggling a skinny tail, give scientists a first glimpse of a vast swath of the oldest, and perhaps oddest, fungal group alive today. [partner id=”sciencenews”...
View ArticleCrab Nebula Spews Most Powerful Flares Yet
The Crab Nebula, a burnt-out cinder of an exploded star, is acting up. For six days on April 12, 2011, it released a flare five times stronger than any it has unleashed before. The post Crab Nebula...
View ArticleSound Test Might Signal Minimal Consciousness
Talk between the brain’s decision-making center, or frontal cortex, and other brain regions might distinguish aware individuals from those stripped of conscious thought. Identifying such signaling...
View ArticleThe Original Noah’s Ark: Pond Scum
Like exhausted nightclubbers, early animals may have weathered their harsh lifestyle by squirming up to the oxygen bar. [partner id=”sciencenews” align=”right”]Animals living more than 550 million...
View ArticleCriminal-Profiling Trick Used to Combat Disease
A technique that helps crime fighters zoom in on a serial killer’s whereabouts may help scientists prevent deaths of a different sort — those caused by infectious diseases. [partner id=”sciencenews”...
View ArticleMilky Way Galaxy Has Mirrorlike Symmetry
A new study suggests the Milky Way doesn’t need a makeover: It’s already just about perfect. [partner id=”sciencenews” align=”right”]Astronomers base that assertion on their discovery of a vast section...
View ArticleAerial Microbes Can Make Rain
Bacteria often leave their hosts feeling under the weather. And even when the hosts are high-altitude parcels of air, microbes can be a source of inclement conditions, a Montana research team finds....
View ArticleHorny Male Alligators Bellow With Their Back Spikes
Alligators flirt with physics. When males attract attention by quivering their spiky backs underwater, they create Faraday waves, researchers reported May 23 in Seattle at a meeting of the Acoustical...
View ArticleFeel the Noise: Touch, Hearing May Share Neurological Roots
SEATTLE — About a year and a half after her stroke, a 36-year-old professor started to feel sounds. A radio announcer’s voice made her tingle. Background noise in a plane felt physically uncomfortable....
View ArticleHot, Rocky Pancake Formed Hawaiian Islands
Like a pig at a luau, the Hawaiian Islands get roasted from below. But — like novice cooks — scientists aren’t sure what kind of heat it takes to really get things cooking. [partner id=”sciencenews”...
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