News

NASA’s two venerable Voyager spacecraft are celebrating three decades of flight as they head toward interstellar space. Their ongoing odysseys mark an unprecedented and historic accomplishment.Voyager 2 launched on Aug. 20, 1977, and Voyager 1 launched on Sept. 5, 1977. They continue to return information from distances more than three times farther away than Pluto.
“The […]

[Read more →]

Science Daily — The mighty Mars rovers Spirit and Opportunity continue to persevere in brutal conditions, as revealed in images of the sun they are sending home. The images show how opaque the Martian atmosphere has been in the face of a raging, two-month dust storm.To understand the gravity of the storm, engineers and astronomers […]

[Read more →]

Science Daily — New research at the University of Glasgow has found that arthritis in cats is far more common than previously thought.Professor David Bennett in the University’s Vet School, has found that as many as 30 per cent of all cats over the age of eight may be suffering in pain and a reduced […]

[Read more →]

Science Daily — Cooperation is widespread in the natural world but so too are cheats — mutants that do not contribute to the collective good but simply reap the benefits of others’ cooperative efforts. In evolutionary terms, cheats should indeed prosper, so how cooperation persists despite the threat of cheat takeover is a fundamental question. […]

[Read more →]

Science Daily — Genetically engineered cells implanted in mice have cleared away toxic plaques associated with Alzheimer’s disease. The animals were sickened with a human gene that caused them to develop, at an accelerated rate, the disease that robs millions of elderly people of their memories. After receiving the doctored cells, the brain-muddling plaques melted […]

[Read more →]