!----> The lava lake at the Halema'uma'u Crater of Kilauea volcano has finally overflowed--an event that has been . The lake of molten rock formed in 2010, and has been a source of fascination for both scientists and volcano lovers, who trek to the site in hopes of glimpsing the lake's overflow. Last week, the crater had so many visitors that park officials encouraged people to visit to avoid traffic jams. Right now, you can't get close to the lava lake. A visitor's area overlooking the crater has been closed for a while due to volcanic...
!----> Twins Dreamstime Even identical twins aren't exactly identical In late 2012, a in the south of France. DNA evidence led officials to two suspects, a pair of twins. The victims recognized the men, but couldn’t tell them apart; since the twins' DNA is identical, officials didn’t have a way to figure out which one of them to prosecute. Different twins, different melting points....
!----> Beer Sampler People have brewed beer for thousands of years, but there are some things that brewers still don't have down to a science. Despite the best efforts of brewers everywhere, sometimes a tiny, nefarious bacterium will manage to squirm its way into a batch of beer, ruining it for everyone. Usually, brewers don't find out about the presence of bacteria until too late. They rely on cultures,...
!----> Earthquake Zones The USGS Identified 17 zones where earthquakes were more frequent than in the past. Just days after Oklahoma's government the idea that human actions could, in fact, cause earthquakes, the United States Geological Survey (USGS) released a outlining how they could potentially map people-induced earthquake hazards. 'Induced' or 'potentially induced' earthquakes (the...
!----> Calbuco The eruption of Calbuco on April 22. Chile's Calbuco volcano has been sleeping since 1972--and yesterday, it woke up with a start. The peak finally erupted, sending a huge ash plume into the air pouring out of the mountain's vents shortly afterwards. Calbuco's eruption took locals by surprise, but the government moved quickly, about 4,000 people from a 12-mile radius around...
!----> Stegosaurus Plates Saitta et al. T. rex has its big head and tiny arms, triceratops has horns, and brontosaurus (yes, ) has its super long neck. The stegosaurus, on the other hand, has a tiny brain and the equivalent of a set of China plates set in long lines running down its back. It turns out that the size and shape of the plates of these might actually give paleontologists a clue as to...
Utility vs. Homeowners Over Solar Power Utility vs. Homeowners Over Solar Power In Hawaii, where 12 percent of the homes have solar panels, handling the surplus power is putting pressure on the state’s biggest utility, which is fighting to reduce what it pays for the energy. HONOLULU — Allan Akamine...
By Worker without access to adequate pollen early in life , as adults. The bees’ so-called waggle dance, a figure-eight movement, is used to tell other members of the colony how far and in what direction to fly to find flowers. If the pollen-deprived bees went out to forage, they often did not return, said Heather Mattila, a biologist at Wellesley College.. Dr. Mattila and Hailey Scofield, an undergraduate student, raised one group of bees with limited access to pollen...
Earlier this year, Dr. Sabine Hossenfelder, a theoretical physicist in Stockholm, made the jarring suggestion that might cause cancer. She was not talking about the “dark matter” of the genome (another term for junk DNA) but about the hypothetical, lightless particles that cosmologists believe pervade the universe and hold the...
A Silicon Valley start-up with some big-name backers is threatening to upend genetic screening for breast and by offering a test on a sample of saliva that is so inexpensive that most women could get it. At the same time, the nation’s two largest clinical laboratories, and , normally bitter rivals, are joining with French researchers to pool their data...
Reducing methane leaks from oil and gas operations around the world could provide a relatively inexpensive way to fight climate change, according to commissioned by the . The amount of methane that escaped worldwide in 2012 was roughly 3.6 billion cubic feet and would have been worth $30 billion on the market, said Kate Larsen, a director of the , which produced the study. A country that produced that amount of gas would rank seventh in the world, coming in just after Russia, she said. ...
For decades, the has had fewer than a dozen pages of instructions for how to regulate the millions of lipsticks, moisturizers and other cosmetics sold each year. Now, a new bipartisan bill, co-sponsored by Senators , Democrat of California, and Susan Collins, Republican of Maine, proposes to give the broader oversight, including the authority to force recalls...
!----> Spring has sprung, and as you begin to shed your fur...sorry, I mean, start spring cleaning, you might be wondering where all this dust came from. If you live in the United States, science may have an answer. A published in PLOS One shows that the tiny particles of fungi present in all dust vary by location. There is enough difference between fungal communities across the country that researchers can...
!----> Champagne This champagne is of a slightly more modern vintage. Losing a shipment of over 160 bottles champagne in the Baltic Sea must have been a huge blow to European importers back in the early 1800's. But their loss is definitely our gain. Discovered on the seafloor in 2010, the shipwrecked cargo has become a treasure trove of information to scientists interested in how alcohol was made in...
!----> Melting Chocolate Whether it's melted down for use in baking, coating strawberries, or simply held a little too long in the palm of your hand, everyone knows that heat plays a central role in making chocolate gooey. That's still true, but it turns out that genetics has some say in the process as well. In a published in Frontiers in Plant Science, researchers at Penn State found a gene that...
The revised its on Sunday night, urging survivors to abstain from all forms of sex or use every time “until more information becomes available,” rather than three months as previously recommended. The and have in recent weeks. They were acting on evidence suggesting that a Liberian man who recovered from might have transmitted the virus to his female partner many months later. Ebola genetic material was found in a semen sample the man provided 175 days after...
MANSON, Iowa — The flat, endless acres of black dirt here in northern Iowa will soon be filled with corn and soybean seeds. But as farmers tuned up their tractors and waited for the perfect moment to plant, another topic weighed on their minds: a lawsuit filed in federal court by the state’s largest water utility. After years of mounting frustration, the...
ITHACA, N.Y. — Throughout the school year, ’s strength and conditioning center is filled with a chorus of clanging weights and thumping rock music. Posters in the entrance to the center instruct athletes — from nearly 300-pound offensive linemen to 5-foot-tall field hockey players — to refuel their bodies after sweat-inducing workouts. But the suggested...
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