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Using the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope (FAST), astronomers from the Purple Mountain Observatory (PMO) in Nanjing, China, have observed a pulsar known as RRAT J1913+1330. Results of the observational campaign, published June 5 on the arXiv pre-print server, indicate that it is an extremely variable pulsar with peculiar properties.
A group of integrative biologists at the University of Texas at Austin has engineered a bacterium that harmlessly infects the bee gut as a means to stop the spread of a deadly parasite that infects honeybees. Qiang Huang, Patrick Lariviere, J. Elijah Powell and Nancy Moran reported their results in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
The depths of the oceans are home to a complex ecosystem of marine organisms, but also a vast network of cables spanning the globe that aid communications. Earthquakes and tsunamis can potentially damage these important cables. The Earth's surface is more than 70% water, which creates a challenge for scientists who monitor this seismic activity.
Research led by the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, New Hampshire, has looked into mortality estimates due to various causes when accounting for smoking status.
The 19th century philosopher Thomas Carlyle once declared, "Music is well said to be the speech of angels."