A parasite that makes mice unafraid of cats may quash other fears too0
- Earth Mysteries, From Around the Web
- January 17, 2020
Toxoplasma gondii can mess with all sorts of mice behaviors, a new study shows
Toxoplasma gondii can mess with all sorts of mice behaviors, a new study shows
Astronomers have detected five new planets, eight planet candidates, and confirmed three previously reported planets, around nine nearby M-dwarf (red dwarf) stars. Among the new planets, Gliese 180d and Gliese 229Ac are super-Earths located in the conservative habitable zones of their host stars; Gliese 433c is a cold super-Neptune candidate belonging to an unexplored population of Neptune-like planets.
Lights from a medical marijuana farm created a strange purple glow in the sky recently above Snowflake, Arizona—located around 175 miles northeast of Phoenix.
When physicists detected signals of high-energy neutrinos coming from a rather unlikely direction in the cosmos, they naturally went looking for a powerful source that might explain it.
The incidents interrupted Exercise Mainbrace, a massive set of NATO war-game maneuvers.
Warm, cold, just right? Physicists at the University of California, Davis are taking the temperature of dark matter, the mysterious substance that makes up about a quarter of our universe.
The star closest to the sun appears to host another world much colder than Earth
A microorganism scooped up in deep-sea mud off Japan’s coast has helped scientists unlock the mystery of one of the watershed evolutionary events for life on Earth: the transition from the simple cells that first colonized the planet to complex cellular life – fungi, plants and animals including people.
Scientists knew the impact happened; they just didn’t know where.
A haunting Appalachian Mountain swamp well known to Bigfoot researchers has been purchased by a land conservancy in North Carolina for protection.