Study: Pet laser pointers have enough power to “blast away” cells in the back of the eye

Study: Pet laser pointers have enough power to “blast away” cells in the back...

Laser pointers used to exercise pets may seem like safe and simple low-powered devices, but an Ohio teen learned the hard way that staring...
Slower growing chickens experience higher welfare, commercial scale study finds

Slower growing chickens experience higher welfare, commercial scale study finds

Slower growing broiler chickens are healthier and have more fun than conventional breeds of birds, new evidence from an independent commercial scale farm trial...
Study: Rare pattern observed in migrating common swifts

Study: Rare pattern observed in migrating common swifts

Compared with other migratory birds, the common swift follows a very unusual pattern when it migrates from the breeding areas in Europe to its...
Biochemistry: DNA damage caused by migrating light energy

Biochemistry: DNA damage caused by migrating light energy

Ultraviolet light endangers the integrity of human genetic information and may cause skin cancer. For the first time, researchers at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology...
Scientists trace the outlines of two cultures within science

Scientists trace the outlines of two cultures within science

In the world of scientific research today, there's a revolution going on—over the last decade or so, scientists across many disciplines have been seeking...
Researchers creating gene-edited pigs, cattle to improve food production

Researchers creating gene-edited pigs, cattle to improve food production

For the first time, researchers have created pigs, goats and cattle that can serve as viable “surrogate sires,” male animals that produce sperm carrying...
Life On Venus? Astronomers Detect Biosignature Gas Phosphine

Life On Venus? Astronomers Detect Biosignature Gas Phosphine

What may be the first hints of life on Venus have been discovered by an international team of astronomers using observations from the James...
A Catalog of Short Period Spectroscopic and Eclipsing Binaries

A Catalog of Short Period Spectroscopic and Eclipsing Binaries

Researchers Su-Su Shan, Fan Yang, and Ji-Feng Liu et al from National Astronomical Observatories of Chinese Academy of Sciences (NAOC) build a catalog of...
Researchers Find Coronal Mini-jets in an Activated Tornado-like Prominence

Researchers Find Coronal Mini-jets in an Activated Tornado-like Prominence

Solar jet is a common activity phenomenon in the solar atmosphere. It mainly appears as transient collimated plasma ejections. Some studies have shown that...
Herschel and the Uranian moons

Herschel and the Uranian moons

To explore the outer regions of the Solar System, space probes such as Voyager 1 and 2, Cassini-Huygens and New Horizons were sent on...

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