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Study explains why galaxies stop creating stars Astronomers examined around 70,000 galaxies to address an important unsolved mystery in astrophysics Date: July 8, 2016 Source: University of California - Riverside Summary: Using a large sample of around 70,000 galaxies, a team of researchers led by University of California, Riverside astronomers may have an answer to an outstanding problem in the study of the evolution of galaxies: Why do galaxies stop creating stars? Share: AddThis Sharing Buttons FULL STORY ESO 137-001 is a perfect example of a spiral galaxy zipping through a crammed cluster of galaxies. Gas is being pulled from its disc in a process called ram pressure stripping. The galaxy appears to be losing gas as it plunges through the Norma galaxy cluster. Credit: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA). Galaxies come in three main shapes -- elliptical, spiral (such as the Milky Way) and irregular. They can be massive or sm...

An artist's rendition of bacteria that live in the gut of people and their closest relatives. A new study finds that these microbes have lived -- and evolved -- with us since before we were human. Credit: The University of Texas at Austin / Jenna Luecke Some of the bacteria in our guts were passed down over millions of years, since before we were human, suggesting that evolution plays a larger role than previously known in people's intestinal-microbe makeup, according to a new study in the journal Science . The bacteria that the researchers studied guide the early development of our intestines, train our immune systems to fight pathogens and may even affect our moods and behavior. The research, which included an international team of scientists, was led by Howard Ochman, a professor of integrative biology at The University of Texas at Austin, and Andrew Moeller, a former graduate student at UT Austin, currently a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Californi...

Robert Hughes,  The Shock of the New  and  The Spectacle of Skill: Selected Writings “I am completely an elitist, in the cultural but emphatically not the social sense,” Robert Hughes, who was an art critic for  Time  magazine for 30 years, wrote in  The Spectacle of Skill,  answering to accusations of snobbery by his fellow Aussies. “I prefer the good to the bad, the articulate to the mumbling, the aesthetically developed to the merely primitive, and full to partial consciousness. I love the spectacle of skill, whether it’s an expert gardener at work, or a good carpenter chopping dovetails, or someone tying a Bimini hitch that won’t slip. I don’t think stupid or ill-read people are as good to be with as wise and fully literate ones … Consequently, most of the human race doesn’t matter much to me, outside the normal and necessary frame of courtesy and the obligation to respect human rights. I see no reason to squirm around apolog...

Are you having emotions that make no sense? Do you feel your body reacting to things that you cannot explain?  You might just be experiencing a shift in consciousness. This collective movement is happening right now and some people are unaware that things are happening in the metaphysical world. Here are 11 signs that you are experiencing a shift in consciousness: 1. A STRONG DESIRE TO BE ALONE. As our bodies enter higher frequencies there is a longing for alone time. We begin to feel overwhelmed by the world’s stimulation. There is little need for television or company. This lasts a little while and it should be honored. You are not falling into a depression. You are shifting to higher elevations of vibration. You do not have to become a hermit. Turn off the phone, shut the computer down, and just allow your body to recharge from the over stimulation. 2. AN URGENCY TO QUIET THE MIND. You may find yourself craving meditation and prayer time every day. You will feel tha...

The LUX Dark Matter Experiment operates a mile underground at the Sanford Underground Research Facility. It's location helps shield the detector from background radiation that could confound a dark matter signal. Credit: C. H. Faham The Large Underground Xenon (LUX) dark matter experiment, which operates beneath a mile of rock at the Sanford Underground Research Facility in the Black Hills of South Dakota, has completed its silent search for the missing matter of the universe. Today at an international dark matter conference (IDM 2016) in Sheffield, U.K., LUX scientific collaborators presented the results from the detector's final 20-month run from October 2014 to May 2016. The new research result is also described with further details on the LUX Collaboration's website. LUX's sensitivity far exceeded the goals for the project, collaboration scientists said, but yielded no trace of a dark matter particle. LUX's extreme sensitivity makes the team confident...

Birds have a very successful history and rich fossil record that includes dinosaurs and dates back to 250 million years. They are famous for flying and singing and have complex ways of doing both. It is known that these two abilities are related to the inner ear, but researchers still did not understand how their inner ear evolved—until now. Application of computed-tomography techniques on a 245 million-year-old fossil allowed a team of researchers to see inside its inner ear. They have shown that bird ancestors were also agile animals and possessed a refined hearing sense. The evolution of the bird ear Application of computed-tomography techniques on the 245 million-year-old fossil of Euparkeria, a close relative of the common ancestor of birds, dinosaurs, and crocodiles, allowed researchers to see inside its skull. They found out that Euparkeria was an agile animal and possessed a well-adapted ear for detecting airborne sounds. They concluded that this was also the case for ...

Story at-a-glance - Meditation benefits include improved attention, memory, processing speed, and creativity. It may also help counteract age-related loss of brain volume Meditation can give you an energizing boost similar to caffeine, but meditation accomplishes this without the adverse effects associated with caffeine Meditation provides your body with rest that is two to five times deeper than sleep. Meditating for 20 minutes equates to a 1.5 hour nap, but you won’t have that “sleep hangover” afterward. Instead, you’ll feel awake and refreshed By Dr. Mercola There is growing evidence to show that meditation can make you healthier and happier. For example, mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) is sometimes used to treat depression, and brain imaging technology suggests meditation actually changes your brain in a number of beneficial ways. MRI scans have shown that long-term meditation can alter the structure of your cerebral cortex, the outer layer of your brai...