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Washington, March 20 (ANI): A team of scientists are all set to undertake an expedition to explore the rupture site of the 8.8-magnitude Chilean earthquake, which is one of largest quakes in recorded history.
The scientists are funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and affiliated with the Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO) at the University [...]

Washington, March 17 (ANI): A team of scientists, using computer simulations, has solved a 20-year-old riddle about why nebulae around massive stars don’t disappear.
Massive stars are dense enough to fuse hydrogen while they”re still gathering material from the gas cloud, so it was a mystery why their brilliant radiation does not heat the infalling gas [...]

Washington, March 5 (ANI): In a new research, geologists have found evidence that sea ice extended to the equator 716.5 million years ago, which gives weight to the theory of a “snowball Earth” event long suspected to have taken place around that time.
The research was funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and led by [...]

Washington, September 3 (ANI): In a new research, scientists have identified ‘tipping points’ at which sudden shifts to new conditions occur in the world.

The research was done by Martin Scheffer of Wageningen University in The Netherlands and co-authors, including William Brock and Stephen Carpenter [...]

Washington, August 29 (ANI): Elderly people with limited mobility may soon come to be served by robots in a manner as if they are being served by other persons, thanks to a collaborative study by three University of Illinois at Chicago engineers and a Rush University nursing specialist.

“We want to help elderly people communicate with [...]

Washington, August 28 (ANI): In a new research, scientists have determined that subtle connections between the 11-year-solar cycle, the stratosphere and the tropical Pacific Ocean work in sync to generate periodic weather patterns that affect much of the globe, an understanding [...]

Washington, August 26 (ANI): A new research has determined that global warming threatens the existence of tropical species, the ecosystem and its by-products.

The research was done by herpetologist Laurie Vitt, curator of reptiles and George Lynn Cross Research Professor at the University of Oklahoma’s Sam Noble Museum of Natural History.

Vitt has studied [...]

Washington, August 25 (ANI): Astronomers have launched a new citizen science project called “Citizen Sky” to help study a bright star that will soon begin a puzzling transformation that only happens every 27 years.

Epsilon Aurigae is a bright star that can be seen with the unaided eye even in bright urban areas of the Northern [...]

Washington, August 22 (ANI): In a new research, a team of scientists is aiming to develop smart material systems inspired by the biology of fish.

The remarkable ability of fish to maneuver in tight places, or to hover in one area efficiently, or to accelerate in a seemingly effortless fashion has researchers wondering if they [...]

Washington, August 21 (ANI): High-performance computing systems, visualization resources, and software tools provided by the National Science Foundation TeraGrid helped make the Hayden Planetarium’s new space show the most scientifically accurate and advanced planetarium show ever produced.

The Hayden Planetarium is a public planetarium located on Central Park West, New York City, next to and organizationally [...]

Washington, July 15 (ANI): A new research has determined that concrete columns with internal bars made of glass fibers can make a building sturdier.

In the research, the University of Miami, through its NSF Industry/University Cooperative Research Center “Repair [...]

Washington, July 3 (ANI): Using a worldwide combination of diverse telescopes, astronomers have discovered that a giant galaxy’s bursts of very high energy gamma rays are coming from a region very close to the supermassive black hole at its core.

The discovery provides important new information about the mysterious workings of the powerful “engines” in [...]

Washington, June 30 (ANI): Individuals are more likely to register for conservation programs if their neighbors do, says a new study.

The research, to be published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) this week, is the first to focus on the phenomenon of social norms in the context of China’s conservation [...]

Washington, June 20 (ANI): A new research has indicated that athletes and spectators faced unprecedented air pollution at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, China, which was far worse than other recent Olympic Games, and was about 30 percent higher than has been reported by Chinese environmental experts.

The research was done before, during and after [...]

Washington, June 19 (ANI): Scientists have created the first-ever comprehensive computer model of sunspots, a breakthrough that will help scientists unlock mysteries of the sun and its impacts on Earth.

Sunspots are associated with massive ejections of charged plasma that can cause geomagnetic storms and disrupt communications and navigational systems.

They are also linked to variations [...]

Washington, June 19 : Scientists have created the first-ever comprehensive computer model of sunspots, a breakthrough that will help scientists unlock mysteries of the sun and its impacts on Earth.
Sunspots are associated with massive ejections of charged plasma that can cause geomagnetic storms and disrupt communications and navigational systems.
They are also linked to variations in [...]

Washington, May 25 (ANI): A computer scientist from the University of Kentucky hopes that modern digital technology will enable him to read two of the hundreds of fragile papyrus scrolls found in a villa at Herculaneum, thought to have been owned at one time by Julius Caesar’s father-in-law, and unlock secrets they have held for [...]

Washington, May 18 (ANI): A team of atmospheric chemists has moved closer to the first-ever direct detections of biological particles within ice clouds, which is considered the “holy grail” of climate change science.

The team, led by Kimberly Prather and Kerri Pratt of the University of California at San Diego, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, sampled water [...]

Washington, May 12 (ANI): A large collaboration between various universities in the US has come up with a surprising twist to photosynthesis by swapping a key metal necessary for turning sunlight into chemical energy.

In the heart of every green leaf are pigments called chlorophyll, which not only give most plants their color, but also along [...]

Washington, May 6 (ANI): Marine scientists, on an expedition to an erupting undersea volcano near the Island of Guam, have discovered that it appears to be continuously active, has grown a new cone during the past three years, and its activity supports a unique biological community thriving despite the eruptions.

The international science team on the [...]