A rare celestial event will transform the night sky above the Americas as Earth positions itself between the Sun and Moon, casting our planet's shadow across 96 percent of the lunar surface. The post On the night of 27 August 2026 the Earth’s shadow will slide across a full Moon and turn it copper for more than an hour, a partial lunar eclipse visible from the Americas without any equipment except a clear sky appeared first on Space Daily .
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Like a bendy straw, an ancient insect’s folded mouthparts may have flexed without collapsing, revealing a feeding adaptation unknown in living planthoppers. About 99 million years ago, a tiny insect became trapped in tree resin with mouthparts nearly twice the length of its body. The resin hardened into amber, preserving an unusual feeding organ that [...]
An enzyme called GRK2 clumps up and damages cellular powerhouses in the brains of mice with Alzheimer's disease. Newly developed chemical compounds that prevent or eliminate these clumps helped preserve memory and slow brain cell death in the animals.
A dinosaur fossil that sat unnoticed in a museum collection for nearly a century has turned out to belong to a previously unknown predator with enormous curved claws. The animal, roughly the size of a large tiger, lived in what is now Britain about 120 million years ago. The discovery was made by a research [...]
Korean researchers developed BF-04, a compound that treats cancer by blocking microtubules while imaging tumors and drug distribution in real time.
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