A family portrait of galaxies from the CRISTAL survey. Red indicates cool gas from ALMA [CII]. Blue and green represent starlight from the Hubble and James Webb Space Telescopes (Image credit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO) / HST / JWST / R. Herrera-Camus)…
An Australian flying fox. These bats are known to carry Australian bat lyssavirus (ABLV). (Image: 11Audrey11 via Getty Images) A New South Wales (NSW) man has become the first person in the state to be infected with Australian bat lyssavirus…
Maxar Technologies has released satellite images of flood damage along the Guadalupe River. New satellite images have captured evidence of the devastation caused by deadly floods in Texas earlier this week. The flooding, which began early on Friday (July 4),…
Three images from Parker Solar Probe’s groundbreaking corona survey illustrate the formation of coronal mass ejections (yellow) — giant balls of plasma ejected by the sun into the solar system. (Image credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins APL/Naval Research Lab) NASA has released…
A gene therapy for a type of genetic deafness has already been tested in people aged 1 to 24. The best results were seen in children aged 5 to 8. (Image credit: Capuski/Getty Images) Up to 3 in 1,000 newborns…
Researchers have identified a mechanism in the Barents Sea that may be keeping Atlantic currents strong. (Image courtesy of Anton Petrus via Getty Images) A new study suggests that the Atlantic Ocean’s major currents, which appear to be slowing as…
A sugarcane cutter works under the hot sun in western Maharashtra. (Photo: Sanket Jain) MAHARASHTRA, INDIA — After an hour of working in a sugarcane field, Shakuntala Admane felt dizzy for four hours. Then, as temperatures soared past 40 degrees…
A new study has found that huge sand dunes on the floor of the North Sea are buried under ancient ‘silt’. (Image credit: Photo © Tomasz Sienicki [user: tsca, email: tomasz.sienicki at gmail.com], CC BY 2.5, via Wikimedia Commons) Enormous…
Mars’ tilt is currently comparable to Earth’s. However, millions of years ago, its axis shifted significantly, possibly causing a catastrophic water leak. (Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech) A new study suggests that dramatic changes in the tilt of Mars’s spin axis over…
(Image credit: OBSERVATORIO VERA C. RUBIN/HANDOUT/Anadolu via Getty Images) The amount of data to be collected by the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, which unveiled its stunning first images this week, will far exceed any previous record set by other telescopes,…