Large-scale tidal observations challenge the textbook idea that two symmetric water bulges physically form on opposite sides of Earth. For generations, students have learned to picture Earth’s oceans forming two broad bulges on opposite sides of the planet under the Moon’s gravitational influence. Researchers led by Yongfeng Yang of the Water Resources Comprehensive Development Center […]
Textbooks May Be Wrong: Satellite Data Challenge the Two-Bulge Tide Model
Large-scale tidal observations challenge the textbook idea that two symmetric water bulges physically form on opposite sides of Earth. For generations, students have learned to picture Earth’s oceans forming two broad bulges on opposite sides of the planet under the Moon’s gravitational influence. Researchers led by Yongfeng Yang of the Water Resources Comprehensive Development Center […]
Textbooks May Be Wrong: Satellite Data Challenge the Two-Bulge Tide Model
Large-scale tidal observations challenge the textbook idea that two symmetric water bulges physically form on opposite sides of Earth. For generations, students have learned to picture Earth’s oceans forming two broad bulges on opposite sides of the planet under the Moon’s gravitational influence. Researchers led by Yongfeng Yang of the Water Resources Comprehensive Development Center […]
Tiny New “Dragon” Discovered High in Thailand’s Mountain Forests
High in the forests of western Thailand, scientists have discovered a tiny new lizard whose striking appearance and unique biology earned it a name worthy of a fantasy dragon. A newly discovered mountain horned dragon, Acanthosaura syrax, was named after Syrax, the yellow dragon ridden by Queen Rhaenyra Targaryen in House of the Dragon. The […]
NASA’s James Webb Telescope Captures a Dying Star Sculpting a Cosmic Lion
The James Webb Space Telescope has captured new images of NGC 2392, a planetary nebula commonly known as the Lion Nebula, revealing the cosmic object in striking infrared detail. The Hubble Space Telescope previously observed the nebula in 2000, imaging the lion face-shaped target in visible light. Those observations highlighted its distinctive appearance, including a […]
NASA’s James Webb Telescope Captures a Dying Star Sculpting a Cosmic Lion
The James Webb Space Telescope has captured new images of NGC 2392, a planetary nebula commonly known as the Lion Nebula, revealing the cosmic object in striking infrared detail. The Hubble Space Telescope previously observed the nebula in 2000, imaging the lion face-shaped target in visible light. Those observations highlighted its distinctive appearance, including a […]
NASA’s James Webb Telescope Captures a Dying Star Sculpting a Cosmic Lion
The James Webb Space Telescope has captured new images of NGC 2392, a planetary nebula commonly known as the Lion Nebula, revealing the cosmic object in striking infrared detail. The Hubble Space Telescope previously observed the nebula in 2000, imaging the lion face-shaped target in visible light. Those observations highlighted its distinctive appearance, including a […]
A Star Near the Milky Way’s Black Hole Is Losing Mass at an Astonishing Rate
New observations from the James Webb Space Telescope show that IRS 3, a star near the center of the Milky Way, is losing vast amounts of mass, causing its surrounding envelope to expand continuously. Near the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way, a mature star is shedding enormous amounts of gas […]
New Drug Turns Cancer’s Favorite Fuel Into a Deadly Weakness
Researchers have developed a compound that attacks cancer cells in two ways by exploiting their demand for sugar while blocking their backup fuel supply. Cancer cells survive in part by consuming large amounts of sugar to power their rapid growth. Rather than trying to starve them of that fuel, researchers have developed an experimental compound […]
New Drug Turns Cancer’s Favorite Fuel Into a Deadly Weakness
Researchers have developed a compound that attacks cancer cells in two ways by exploiting their demand for sugar while blocking their backup fuel supply. Cancer cells survive in part by consuming large amounts of sugar to power their rapid growth. Rather than trying to starve them of that fuel, researchers have developed an experimental compound […]