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…
Fracture swarms on Mars
[caption id="attachment_13671" align="alignnone" width="625"] Sirenum Fossae fractures[/caption] These striking features on Mars were caused by the planet’s crust stretching apart in response to ancient volcanic activity. The fractures in the Sirenum Fossae region in the…
In the heart of devastating outbreak, research team…
[caption id="attachment_13666" align="alignnone" width="619"] UW-Madison’s Yoshihiro Kawaoka, Peter Halfmann and Alhaji Njai stand outside of a military hospital with Foday Sahr, a Sierra Leone military official and chair of microbiology at the University of Sierra…
Sunny solution for killing E. coli
Treating wastewater with solar irradiation shows promise in reducing two E. coli strains but a resilient strain persists. [caption id="attachment_13662" align="alignnone" width="613"] Nada Al-Jassim and coworkers conducted experiments to verify whether solar irradiation can be…
NASA Space Station Cargo Launches Aboard Orbital ATK…
[caption id="attachment_13659" align="alignnone" width="985"] Orbital ATK’s eighth contracted cargo delivery flight to the station successfully launched at 7:19 a.m. EST on an Antares rocket from Pad 0A at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia Sunday.Credits:…