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Jeffrey Paine: Retreating shoreline along Texas Gulf coast

The Texas Gulf coast is among the most dynamic environments on Earth. Jeffrey Paine talks about the retreating coastline, and the risks and value of human activity there.

A microqusar makes a giant manatee nebula

A new view of a 20,000-year old supernova remnant provides more clues to the history of this giant cloud that resembles a beloved endangered species, the Florida Manatee.

Android app for simulates eclipses

A tool for astronomy lovers that allows to know the general and local circumstances for solar and lunar eclipses and planetary transits.

A hidden treasure in the Large Magellanic Cloud

The Large Magellanic Cloud is ablaze with star-forming regions. From the Tarantula Nebula to LHA 120-N 11, part of which is featured in this image.

Heat brings earliest spring blooms on record

Unusually warm spring weather in 2010 and 2012 resulted in the earliest blooms on record in two US locations, a new study finds.

Paging Dr. Charles Dickens

Author Charles Dickens used literature to showcase discrimination against the disabled, says a TAU researcher.

Light from the darkness

An evocative new image from ESO shows a dark cloud where new stars are forming, along with a cluster of brilliant stars that have already emerged from their dusty stellar nursery.

Neon lights up exploding stars

An international team of nuclear astrophysicists has shed new light on the explosive stellar events known as novae.

What would hyperspace travel really look like?

Physics students shed new light on Millennium Falcon’s hyperdrive system – using Einstein’s Special Theory of Relativity.

Scientists reassemble the backbone of life using synchrotron X-rays

Scientists have been able to reconstruct, for the first time, the intricate three-dimensional structure of the backbone of early tetrapods, the earliest four-legged animals.