Fish that display dominant traits are more at risk of consuming microplastic pollution than others in their social group, according to new research. The study, led by the University of Glasgow and published in Proceedings…
Plastic fir-tree forest
[caption id="attachment_13970" align="alignnone" width="639"] Credit: SEBA science team and E-USOC[/caption] This image shows how a metal alloy could look like as it solidifies – using a transparent organic mixture as a stand-in for metals. Likened…
Lake Chany imaged by Proba-V
[caption id="attachment_13967" align="alignnone" width="700"] ESA/Belspo – produced by VITO[/caption] Russia’s frozen Lake Chany dusted by snow, as seen by ESA’s Proba-V Earth-observing minisatellite. Sitting just north of the border with Kazakhstan, Lake Chany is a…
Oldest fossils ever found show life on Earth…
[caption id="attachment_13962" align="alignnone" width="633"] John Valley, professor of geoscience, is pictured in his office in Weeks Hall. PHOTO: JEFF MILLER[/caption] Researchers at UCLA and the University of Wisconsin–Madison have confirmed that microscopic fossils discovered in…
CERN hosts ESA for high-energy radiation experiments
[caption id="attachment_13957" align="alignnone" width="625"] 360 degree view of SPS[/caption] An ESA-led group subjected components and space equipment to the most intense beam of ultra-high energy heavy ions available – short of travelling into space –…