Red squirrels are very isolated from other populations in the UK. Credit: Henk Bogaard/Shutterstock Feeding peanuts to red squirrels can impair the development of their jaws. An endangered rodent population living in…
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New tool lets scientists peer inside neutron stars – SpaceRef
Merging neutron stars and the gravity waves they produce CREDIT NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Imagine taking a star twice as massive as the Sun and crushing it to the size of Manhattan….
Apollo astronaut James McDivitt dies at 93
WASHINGTON, October 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Former NASA Astronaut James A. McDivittwho commanded the Gemini IV and Apollo 9 missions, died October 13. McDivitt passed away peacefully in his sleep surrounded by…
DUCHESS OF DIRT: October heat extends flower season – Comox Valley Record
Did you hear the last one? October has a new nickname – Hotober. Fits perfectly. With high temperatures continuing to set records, October has certainly been an unprecedented month. Being able to…
How Fluctuating Oxygen Levels May Have Accelerated Animal Evolution On Earth – Astrobiology
Fossil records of early animals from the Mistaken Point Ecological Reserve in Canada. CREDIT Dr. Emily. G. Mitchell – University of Cambridge According to new research, oxygen levels in Earth’s atmosphere likely…
Our moon has been slowly moving away from Earth over the past 2.5 billion years
This article was originally published on The conversation. (opens in a new tab) The publication contributed the article to Space.com’s Expert Voices: Editorials and Perspectives. Joshua Davies (opens in a new tab)Professor…
Shortly before they collided, two black holes tangled spacetime into knots
In February 2016, scientists at the Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory (LIGO) announced the first-ever detection of gravitational waves (GWs). Originally predicted by Einstein’s theory of general relativity, these waves are ripples…
How evolution overtook optimal bone structure in hopping rodents
Bones that are separated in small jerboas are fully fused in large ones, but the bony structures that are best at dissipating the stresses of jumping are only partially fused. A bipedal…
Exposure to quaternary ammonium disinfectants promotes bacterial resistance to antibiotics in soils
Credit: Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment (2022). DOI: 10.1016/j.agee.2022.108195 As antibiotics are restricted or even banned in animal production, more disinfectants are used to maintain proper sanitation to prevent bacterial disease. The use…