An “anomaly” occurred as the Soyuz spacecraft carrying two astronauts launched toward the International Space Station from the Russian Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Thursday. The crew had to abort. (Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls)
Launch Failure
Two astronauts made an emergency landing this morning in Kazakhstan after a Russian Soyuz rocket failed while launching them to the International Space Station. According to NASA officials, the rocket failed in its asce ...read more
A healthy adult “bimaternal” mouse. (Credit: Leyun Wang)
Chinese researchers have created healthy mice from two biological moms for the first time. The pups grew to adulthood and even went on to have normal offspring of their own, scientists announced today in the journal Cell Stem Cell. The researchers also produced mice with two dads, but the pups only survived a few days.
Although the reality of biological parenthood for same sex couples in humans is still a ways away, the break ...read more
Paleontologists have discovered clues to the evolution of the biggest animals to ever walk on land by studying one of the tiniest members of the group ever found. (Credit: Andrey Atuchin)
(Inside Science) — Sauropods were the largest animals that ever lived on land. These plant-eating dinosaurs could reach 120 feet in length, and yet their heads were small enough that you could hold its skull in your arms. Despite a robust overall fossil record, until now scientists had only about 12 sau ...read more
Clues to the earliest days of mammal evolution may lie in the genome of the Somalian blind cavefish, Phreatichthys andruzzii. (Credit: Luca Scapoli/University of Ferrara)
If you’re trying to understand the earliest days of mammal evolution, including how our ancestors lived, the genome of a blind cavefish might not strike you as the most obvious place to hunt for clues. A study out today, however, suggests that’s exactly where you can glimpse our distant — and very dark & ...read more
A new study casts doubt on the long lingering idea that black holes might explain dark matter. (Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center)
The hunt for a dark matter explanation seems endless, but now we can mostly rule out one often mentioned potential culprit: black holes.
“The idea of primordial black holes as dark matter is quite old, with some papers already in the ’70s when Stephen Hawking and others proposed it,” said lead study author Miguel Zumalacárreg ...read more
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