These are the caves where many of the Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered in 1947. (Credit: Lux Moundi/Flickr)
It all started with a stray goat.
On an otherwise nondescript day in the spring of 1947, a young Bedouin boy searched for a goat that had strayed from his flock just northwest of the Dead Sea. While he was looking, Muhammed the Wolf, as the boy was known, noticed a series of small caves in the limestone cliff above him. Thinking his goat may have gone into one of those caves, and not wan ...read more
Scientists at the University of Texas Medical Center accidentally reprogrammed one type of mature neuron into another type of mature neuron, without having to revert the cells to a stem-cell state. Here, green indicates the cells that transformed. (Credit: Lei-Lei Wang/UT Southwestern)
Sometimes, the best discoveries are the ones you make by accident. Molecular biologists at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center can attest to that: The team announced in a new paper in the jo ...read more
An animation of images captured by the GOES-16 weather satellite shows Hurricane Michael making landfall along the Florida Panhandle on Oct. 10, 2018. (Source: Rick Kohrs, University of Wisconsin /SSEC)
The utter devastation wrought by Hurricane Michael’s storm surge and 155-mph winds simply boggles the mind.
“It appears that the impact of the hurricane was more like a bomb than a hurricane,” National Public Radio’s Tom Gjelton reported today. “Buildings liter ...read more
Astronomers were surprised at how wimpy the explosion was from this dying star. (Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/R. Hurt)
A Strange, Dying Star
Astronomers watched the strange death of a massive star that had a surprisingly “wimpy” and fast explosion in a galaxy 920 million light-years away. According to the researchers, this unusual explosion suggests that the dying star had a secret companion that was stripping away the star’s mass, leading to the surprisingly fast supernova. The ...read more
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