Sentences with phrase «sn online»

Other physicists, however, have recently questioned the gamma rays» link to dark matter (SN Online: 4/24/17).

Particles of dark matter — an invisible and unidentified substance that makes up the bulk of the matter in the cosmos — could be annihilating in the center of the galaxy, producing gamma rays (SN Online: 11/4/14).

A genomic analysis of comb jellies confirmed that the squishy marine predators are the new oldest animals, bumping the much simpler sea sponges from the base of the animal evolutionary tree (SN Online: 12/12/13; SN: 5/18/13, p. 20).

NASA's Juno spacecraft will arrive at Jupiter in July and plans are under way for a mission to the gas giant's ice - encrusted moon Europa (SN Online: 6/18/15).

Even space telescopes that are trained on the sun can't see the inner part of the corona — they have to block some of it out for their own safety (SN Online: 8/11/17).

On flyby day, the world waited anxiously for news from the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Md., where hundreds of scientists and journalists had gathered for the planet party of the decade (SN Online: 7/15/15).

With the Food and Drug Administration's recent approval of GM salmon (SN Online: 11/19/15), for example, scientists agree that there is a slim possibility that escapees could harm native fish populations; that risk could be curtailed, however, with strict oversight about where and how such fish are farmed.

New Horizons, meanwhile, is on course for its next stop: 2014 MU69, a 50 - kilometer - wide hunk of ice about 1.6 billion kilometers past Pluto (SN Online: 11/5/15).

Since March 2012, the virus has infected at least 538 people worldwide and killed at least 145 (SN Online: 5/5/14).

Other Chinese groups had previously reported editing human embryos that could not develop into a baby because they carried extra chromosomes, but this is the first report involving viable embryos (SN Online: 4/8/16; SN Online: 4/23/15).

In November, the infected insects accounted for 65 percent of the island's mosquito population (SN Online: 11/19/13).

With about 20 new species added each year to the existing 1,200 or so known worldwide, tardigrades have become tiny icons of extreme survival (SN Online: 7/14/17).

But it's no Earth analog, whizzing around its star in 8.5 hours, with temperatures exceeding 2,000 ° Celsius (SN Online: 10/30/13).

This GM strain comes from Oxitec, the same firm behind controversial GM mosquitoes proposed for release in Florida (SN Online: 8/5/16).

Ripples in spacetime stirred up by merging black holes (SN Online: 6/1/17) should be slightly amplified if those black holes are spinning.

Because El Niño's warmer, drier conditions in tropical regions mimic the effects of climate change expected by the end of the century, those observations may be a sobering harbinger of the tropics» diminishing role as a buffer for fossil fuel emissions (SN Online: 9/28/17).

The spacecraft, which launched in 2016, swung back by Earth on September 22 for a quick gravity assist on its way to Bennu, a carbon - rich asteroid that comes within about 300,000 kilometers of Earth every six years (SN Online: 9/8/16).

And additional gravitational ripples may already be in the bag: It's rumored that LIGO scientists have also detected a smashup of neutron stars (SN Online: 8/25/17).

The spacecraft burned up like a comet in the planet's atmosphere — but not before sending back unprecedented observations (SN Online: 9/15/17).

NASA has declared its intention to send humans to Mars in the 2030s (SN Online: 5/24/16).

Last year, government regulators in the United Kingdom gave permission for Niakan, a developmental biologist at the Francis Crick Institute in London, and colleagues to perform gene editing on human embryos left over from in vitro fertilization treatments (SN Online: 2/1/16).

Earlier this year, Earth - based telescopes caught the object, roughly 6.5 billion kilometers away, eclipsing a star (SN Online: 7/20/17).

The latest gravitational wave sighting, made on August 14, showed up in all three detectors almost simultaneously, which allowed scientists to pinpoint the region of space in which the black holes resided more precisely than ever before (SN Online: 9/27/17).

In stable orbit around Ceres, Dawn will continue circling even after it runs out of fuel late next year (SN Online: 10/20/17).

Earlier this year, Cassini snapped the closest - ever views of Saturn's atmosphere (SN Online: 4/27/17) and revealed that Pan, a tiny moon that orbits amid Saturn's rings, has a ridge around its equator, making it look like a ravioli (SN: 4/15/17, p. 10).

Earlier this year, preliminary results from the trial, named the Systolic Blood Pressure Intervention Trial, or SPRINT, convinced the National Institutes of Health to end the study a year ahead of schedule (SN Online: 9/11/15).

However, on January 12 in Science, Dundas and colleagues reported finding eight slopes where layers of water ice were exposed at shallow depths (SN Online: 1/11/18).

There's mounting evidence that early exposure to microbes can protect against allergies and asthma (SN Online: 7/20/16).

Fracking, which injects liquids underground at high pressure to extract oil and natural gas from hard to reach places, can contaminate water (SN Online: 10/12/15) and air, due to chemicals used in the process.

Dark energy is about 120 orders of magnitude weaker than theorists calculate it should be (SN Online: 11/18/13), a mismatch that makes scientists uncomfortable.

This design is modeled after nanocrystals embedded in chameleon skin, which also reflect different colors of light when stretched (SN Online: 3/13/15).

Most planets» temperatures are set by the gas content of their atmospheres, since certain gases trap heat from the sun more efficiently than others (SN Online: 6/8/15).

It will ultimately orbit 20 more times before plunging into the planet's atmosphere on September 15 (SN Online: 4/21/17).

Eating live octopus can be dangerous, but some dolphins in Australian waters have figured out how to do it safely, Sarah Zielinski reported in «How a dolphin eats an octopus without dying» for the Wild Things blog (SN Online: 4/25/17).

Speedy drug - resistance tests (SN Online: 12/7/14) could help researchers predict sooner which antibiotics stand the best chance of taking down TB bacteria.

A longtime fixture of high school math classes, pi has inspired books, art (SN Online: 5/4/06) and enthusiasts who memorize it to tens of thousands of decimal places (SN: 4/7/12, p. 12).

Fecal transplants have recently emerged as powerful ways to treat serious gut infections (SN Online: 10/16/14).

Bower has previously written about whether action video games can benefit kids with dyslexia (SN Online: 2/28/13), how children take turns during researcher - directed play (SN: 7/26/14, p. 16) and how babbling play between parent and baby might reveal an innate musical sense (SN: 8/14/10, p. 18).

Scientists have previously beamed photons up to a satellite and back again (SN Online: 6/5/16), but those particles were not entangled.

Submissions varied wildly, ranging from the mythological Olympus to the much less grandiose Nubbin, defined as a «small lump or residual part» (SN Online: 11/7/17).

The Planck team released its first map of polarization data, which used a single frequency that is very sensitive to dust, this month (SN Online: 5/9/14).

Goldstein and colleagues had reported that tardigrades imported about 17 percent of their genes from foreign sources using a type of DNA swapping known as horizontal gene transfer (SN Online: 11/25/15).

But Blaxter and colleagues soon called that assertion into question, as their tardigrade genome showed hardly any foreign genes (SN Online: 12/8/15).

Even for patients who manage their insulin with automated mechanical pumps (SN Online: 5/8/10), synthetic cells offer the advantage of more precise, real time blood sugar regulation, says Michael Strano, a bioengineer at MIT.

Although Madagascar has set aside tens of thousands of square kilometers for national parks and reserves, illegal logging is still rampant (SN Online: 1/16/15).

But scientists including DeBruyn are also starting to look at timing death using changes in the microbial community during decomposition (SN Online: 7/22/15).

LIGO has previously spotted mergers of swirling black holes with masses tens of times that of the sun (SN Online: 9/27/17); the smaller masses of the orbiting duo pointed the finger at neutron stars.

Sometimes called the «cuddle chemical,» oxytocin is known for its role in maternal bonding (SN Online: 4/16/15).

That outer layer would have dragged against the liquid interior, generating friction and a very strong magnetic field (SN Online: 12/4/14).

Many of the species Darwin discovered in the fossils were previously unknown to science, including several giant ground sloths, compact car — sized relatives of armadillos called glyptodonts (SN Online: 2/22/16) and ancient kin of horses and elephants.