December 20, 2022 Duren Incarva News ‘The Milky Way’ wants you to get to know your home in the universe Astrophysicist Moiya McTier’s new book introduces our galaxy from an unusual perspective Meet the Milky Way in its own words. The Milky Way: An Autobiography of Our Galaxy takes a… READ MORE
December 20, 2022 Duren Incarva News Ancient ‘demon ducks’ may have been undone by their slow growth Australia once had horse-sized mihirung birds, but the lineage vanished about 40,000 years ago Giant flightless birds called mihirungs were the biggest birds to ever stride across what is now… READ MORE
December 20, 2022 Duren Incarva News The James Webb telescope spotted CO2 in an exoplanet’s atmosphere It’s the first definitive detection of the greenhouse gas at a planet outside the solar system The James Webb Space Telescope has gotten the first sniff of carbon dioxide in… READ MORE
December 20, 2022 Duren Incarva News How death’s-head hawkmoths manage to fly straight for miles in the dark The nocturnal insects appear to chart flight paths with the help of an internal compass Sitting alone in the cockpit of a small biplane, Martin Wikelski listens for the pings… READ MORE
December 20, 2022 Duren Incarva News ‘Chameleon’ forces remain elusive in a new dark energy experiment A hypothetical fifth force that morphs based on its environs didn’t turn up A chameleon-like force that shifts its nature based on its environment could explain a major physics quandary:… READ MORE
December 20, 2022 Duren Incarva News A new seasoning smells like meat thanks to sugar — and mealworms New research aims to help people get past the ick of eating insects A spoonful of sugar may help the mealworms go down. Adding sugars to powdered, cooked mealworms creates… READ MORE
December 20, 2022 Duren Incarva News 7-million-year-old limb fossils may be from the earliest known hominid Misconduct allegations over an earlier report on one of the bones hang over the findings In 2001, researchers unearthed a partial fossil leg bone and two forearm bones in the… READ MORE
December 20, 2022 Duren Incarva News 50 years ago, genes eluded electron microscopes Excerpt from the September 2, 1972 issue of Science News Molecular biologists can now visualize the larger structures of the cell, such as the nucleus and chromosomes, under the powerful… READ MORE
December 20, 2022 Duren Incarva News Sleep deprivation may make people less generous A lack of sleep depresses activity in brain regions linked to social behavior, brain scans show Lack of sleep has been linked to heart disease, poor mood and loneliness (SN:… READ MORE
December 20, 2022 Duren Incarva News News stories have caught spiders in a web of misinformation The errors probably contribute to the animals’ undeserved bad reputation Even spiders, it seems, have fallen victim to misinformation. Media reports about people’s encounters with spiders tend to be full… READ MORE