Rapamycin and trametinib are commonly used to treat cancer in humans, but researchers have found that they can also extend life in mice. (Image credit: JoeZellner via Getty Images) According to a new study, scientists have found that a combination…
(Image credit: Legacy Surveys / D. Lang (Perimeter Institute) / INAF / F. Onori) Astronomers have carefully studied a unique and extremely destructive cosmic phenomenon that occurred when an unfortunate star wandered too close to a supermassive black hole. The…
“Coronal rain” — seen here with the Goode Solar Telescope at Big Bear Solar Observatory — occurs when hot plasma in the sun’s corona cools and becomes denser. It is pulled toward the surface by gravity. (Credit: Schmidt et al./NJIT/NSO/AURA/NSF)…
In the greenish-smoky light of the sky, ghostly ripples can be seen. On May 26, under the starry skies of Colorado, with the Milky Way arcing into view, photographer Aaron Watson raised his camera and captured something unusual unfolding in…
Often referred to as the ‘dragon baby’, the great-eared nightjar lives on the forest floor, remaining stationary during the day to avoid predators. (Photo credit: NABA CHOUDHURY/Shutterstock (left) and Dominic Robinson/Alamy Stock Photo (right)) With its large, forward-facing eyes and…
Noctilucent clouds sparkle over the Neris River in Vilnius, Lithuania (Image credit: Photo by Jaugen Jerczak/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images) Noctilucent cloud season is here! Here’s what you need to know about when to see this amazing phenomenon as we…
Video: Hurricane Helen survivors who met Trump share what the president’s visit meant to them Two North Carolinians who lived through Hurricane Helena in September and suffered significant losses from the storm shared one line from President Donald Trump that…
Europa’s surface ice is constantly changing, according to new spectra from the James Webb Space Telescope. (Image credit: Image data: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS; Image processing: Kevin M. Gill CC BY 3.0) Icy worlds may seem frozen in time and space because they…
An artist’s rendering of a scene from the Prince Creek Formation in Alaska during the Late Cretaceous. In the lower right are birds that belong to or are very similar to the group Neornithes, including all modern birds. In the…
Video: Italian cook shows the process of making bread Anna Prezio, a 73-year-old Italian-born Californian who became famous for her cooking videos on social media, shared with Fox News Digital the bread she bakes for her son. Recently, archaeologists made…