A localized dust storm on Mars may have played a key role in driving water into the planet’s upper atmosphere, offering fresh clues to how the Red Planet lost much of its water over billions…
Spa therapy helps Japan’s snow monkeys cope with…
New data reveal that female Japanese macaques bathe in hot springs to lower stress from cold weather. [caption id="attachment_14911" align="alignnone" width="800"] A Japanese monkey in a hot spring in Nagano prefecture.Credit : Asteiner/Wikimedia[/caption] Japanese macaques,…
Farthest star ever seen in the Universe detected
An international team of researchers including the Kavli IPMU have observed the most distant individual star, 9 billion light years from Earth. [caption id="attachment_14908" align="alignright" width="411"] Icarus capture by the Hubble Space Telescope. The left…
The cat in Orion – or was it…
[caption id="attachment_14904" align="alignnone" width="700"] Credit: ESA/Gaia/DPAC[/caption] What is the first creature that comes to mind when you look at the dark cloud in this image? Perhaps a dark kitten with a vivid white nose, front…
Unraveling the immunopathogenesis of Johne’s disease
A research team has unraveled the immunopathogenesis of Johne’s disease, a chronic bovine disease that has caused endemics in Japan and many other countries, placing financial burdens on cattle farmers. Researchers of Hokkaido University, the…