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  Ocean channel in Bahamas marks genetic divide in Brazilian free-tailed bats

  Aug 18, 2017

  Brazilian free-tailed bats are expert flyers, capable of migrating hundreds of miles and regularly traveling more than 30 miles a night. But they pull up short at a narrow ocean channel that cuts across the Bahamas, dividing ...

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  New bioimaging technique is fast and economical

  Aug 18, 2017

  A new approach to optical imaging makes it possible to quickly and economically monitor multiple molecular interactions in a large area of living tissue—such as an organ or a small animal; technology that could have applications ...

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  Astrophysicist predicts detached, eclipsing white dwarfs to merge into exotic star

  Aug 18, 2017

  A University of Oklahoma astrophysicist, Mukremin Kilic, and his team have discovered two detached, eclipsing double white dwarf binaries with orbital periods of 40 and 46 minutes, respectively. White dwarfs are the remnants ...

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  A quick and easy way to shut down instabilities in fusion devices

  Aug 18, 2017

  Scientists have discovered a remarkably simple way to suppress a common instability that can halt fusion reactions and damage the walls of reactors built to create a "star in a jar." The findings, published in June in the ...

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  Hot spot at Hawaii? Not so fast

  Aug 18, 2017

  Through analysis of volcanic tracks, Rice University geophysicists have concluded that hot spots like those that formed the Hawaiian Islands aren't moving as fast as recently thought.

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  Solutal Marangoni flows of miscible liquid drive transport without surface contamination

  Aug 18, 2017

  A research team led by Hyoungsoo Kim, a professor of Mechanical Engineering at KAIST, succeeded in quantifying the phenomenon called, the Marangoni effect, which occurs at the interface between alcohol and water. It is expected ...

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  Spoiler alert: Computer simulations provide preview of upcoming eclipse

  Aug 18, 2017

  A research team from Predictive Science Inc. (PSI) used the Stampede2 supercomputer at The University of Texas at Austin's Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) to forecast the corona of the sun during the upcoming eclipse. ...

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  Mechanisms explaining positional diversity of the hindlimb in tetrapod evolution

  Aug 18, 2017

  In the evolution of tetrapods, the position of the hindlimb has diversified along with the vertebral formula, which is the number of small bones forming the vertebra. Tetrapods, as the name implies, are species that have ...

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  From the edge of the solar system, Voyager probes are still talking to Australia after 40 years

  Aug 18, 2017

  This month marks 40 years since NASA launched the two Voyager space probes on their mission to explore the outer planets of our solar system, and Australia has been helping the US space agency keep track of the probes at ...

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  Industrial "edge cities" have helped China grow

  Aug 18, 2017

  China's massive investment in industrial parks has paid economic dividends while reshaping the urban areas where they are located, according to a newly published study co-authored by an MIT expert on urban economics.