Science & Technology

What we can and can’t say about Arctic warming and U.S. winters 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- March 19, 2018
It certainly feels like the northeastern United States is getting snowier.

By David Aragorn
NASA Science Heading to Space Ranges from the Upper Atmosphere to Microbes 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology, Space
- March 16, 2018
A Dragon spacecraft scheduled to launch into orbit no earlier than April 2, carries the 14th SpaceX commercial resupply mission to the International Space Station for NASA.

By David Aragorn
Scientists map the portal to the cell’s nucleus 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- March 16, 2018
Like an island nation, the nucleus of a cell has a transportation problem. Evolution has enclosed it with a double membrane, the nuclear envelope, which protects DNA but also cuts it off from the rest of the cell. Nature’s solution is a massive—by molecular standards—cylindrical configuration known as the nuclear pore complex, through which imports

By David Aragorn
Unique diamond impurities indicate water deep in Earth’s mantle 0
- Earth Mysteries, From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- March 15, 2018
Scientific analysis of diamond impurities — known as inclusions — reveal naturally forming ice crystals and point to water-rich regions deep below the Earth’s crust

By David Aragorn
Russian physicists make toy asteroids and blast them with a laser 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology, Space
- March 15, 2018
A large team of Russian researchers from Rosatom, joined by three MIPT physicists, has modeled the impact of a nuclear explosion on an Earth-threatening asteroid.

By David Aragorn
Stephen Hawking, science’s brightest star, dies aged 76 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- March 14, 2018
The physicist and author of A Brief History of Time has died at his home in Cambridge. His children said: ‘We will miss him for ever’

By David Aragorn
‘We didn’t mean it – but wow!’ Scientists stumble across secret to BALL LIGHTNING 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- March 14, 2018
RESEARCHERS may have stumbled across the secret to ball lightning, a phenomenon which has confounded scientists for years.

By David Aragorn
Never-Before-Seen Mineral Found Inside a ‘Super Deep’ Diamond 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- March 14, 2018
The find can tell scientists how ocean crust is recycled throughout Earth’s interior.

By David Aragorn
NASA astronaut who spent a year in space now has different DNA from his twin 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology, Space
- March 13, 2018
Space travel is dangerous for a lot of very obvious reasons — traveling off of Earth on a rocket has its risks, after all — but even when everything goes well it seems that a brief stay in space has the potential to alter a person’s very DNA.

By David Aragorn
Why does evolution sometimes repeat itself? Spider-eating spiders may hold the answer 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- March 13, 2018
Discovering something for the second time might sound like a letdown. Not for ecologists in Hawaii, who have found that spider-eating spiders on four islands there independently evolved the same colors: gold, black, and white. This rare example of parallel evolution, which has also been seen in one other Hawaiian spider, could help clarify one of biology’s biggest mysteries: how and when evolution repeats itself.

By David Aragorn