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- Geologists discover ancient buried canyon in South Tibet
- Imagination, reality flow in opposite directions in the brain
- It's filamentary: How galaxies evolve in the cosmic web
- Riddle of the missing stars: Hubble observations cast further doubt on how globular clusters formed
- Unravelling the mystery of gamma-ray bursts with kilometer-scale microphones
- Bacterial slime: It's what's for dinner
- NASA's Swift mission probes an exotic object: 'Kicked' black hole or mega star?
- From dried cod to tissue sample preservation
| Geologists discover ancient buried canyon in South Tibet Posted: 20 Nov 2014 11:17 AM PST Scientists have discovered an ancient, deep canyon buried along the Yarlung Tsangpo River in south Tibet, north of the eastern end of the Himalayas. The geologists say that the ancient canyon -- thousands of feet deep in places -- effectively rules out a popular model used to explain how the massive and picturesque gorges of the Himalayas became so steep, so fast. |
| Imagination, reality flow in opposite directions in the brain Posted: 20 Nov 2014 11:14 AM PST As real as that daydream may seem, its path through your brain runs opposite reality. Aiming to discern discrete neural circuits, researchers have tracked electrical activity in the brains of people who alternately imagined scenes or watched videos. |
| It's filamentary: How galaxies evolve in the cosmic web Posted: 20 Nov 2014 10:34 AM PST How do galaxies like our Milky Way form, and just how do they evolve? Are galaxies affected by their surrounding environment? Astronomers now propose some answers. The researchers highlight the role of the 'cosmic web' -- a large-scale web-like structure comprised of galaxies -- on the evolution of galaxies that took place in the distant universe, a few billion years after the Big Bang. |
| Riddle of the missing stars: Hubble observations cast further doubt on how globular clusters formed Posted: 20 Nov 2014 08:32 AM PST Thanks to the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, some of the most mysterious cosmic residents have just become even more puzzling. New observations of globular clusters in a small galaxy show they are very similar to those found in the Milky Way, and so must have formed in a similar way. |
| Unravelling the mystery of gamma-ray bursts with kilometer-scale microphones Posted: 20 Nov 2014 05:19 AM PST A team of scientists hopes to trace the origins of gamma-ray bursts with the aid of giant space 'microphones'. It's hoped the kilometer-scale microphones will detect gravitational waves created by black holes, and shed light on the origins of the Universe. |
| Bacterial slime: It's what's for dinner Posted: 20 Nov 2014 05:17 AM PST If natural or humanmade disaster strikes, causing global crop failures, the world won't starve -- providing they are willing to eat bacterial slime and bugs. "People have been doing catastrophic risk research for a while. But most of what's been done is dark, apocalyptic and dismal. It hasn't provided any real solutions," says the author of a new book that provides a more optimistic outlook. |
| NASA's Swift mission probes an exotic object: 'Kicked' black hole or mega star? Posted: 19 Nov 2014 02:50 PM PST Astronomers have discovered an unusual source of light in a galaxy some 90 million light-years away. The dwarf galaxy Markarian 177 (center) and its unusual source SDSS1133 (blue) lie 90 million light-years away. The galaxies are located in the bowl of the Big Dipper, a well-known star pattern in the constellation Ursa Major. |
| From dried cod to tissue sample preservation Posted: 19 Nov 2014 05:45 AM PST Could human tissue samples be dried for storage, instead of being frozen? Researchers are looking at the salt cod industry for a potential tissue sample drying technology that could save money without sacrificing tissue quality. |
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