How do new species form? Like most areas of Evolutionary Biology, research related to the formation of new species - 'speciation ' - is rich in historical and current debate. Here, we review both ...

Here, Teague, who studies the formation of planetary systems in MIT's Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences (EAPS), answers a few questions about the new work.

Depending on where they form, tropical storms are also known as hurricanes, cyclones and typhoons. Tropical storms form over warm oceans and travel from east to west. Tropical storms bring with ...

Is man's ability to perceive the form of objects inborn or must it be learned? Experiments indicate that it is innate but that maturation and learning play important roles in its development ...

Ice moving with loose rock acts like sandpaper and deepens the hollow by abrasion. Most erosion occurs where the weight of the ice is heaviest. Stones frozen in the base of the ice grind or abrade ...

If the business name differs from that of the owner, the firm may need to file a Doing Business As (DBA) form. The business’ purpose must be stated clearly but phrased in a way that doesn’t ...

The solar system as we know it began life as a vast, swirling cloud of gas and dust, twisting through the universe without direction or form. About 4.6 billion years ago, this gigantic cloud was ...

It is usually found as gold nuggets in quartz veins, crystallised silicon dioxide, and its formation process has been debated by scientists for many years. However, the recent research entitled ...

While Alzheimer's disease is the most common form of dementia, there are also other common types such as vascular dementia, Lewy body dementia and Frontotemporal dementia. There are also rarer types ...

Schiebelbein-Zwack, Aryanna and Fishbach, Maya 2024. The Mass Density of Merging Binary Black Holes over Cosmic Time. The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 970, Issue. 2, p. 128.

Findings suggest gold nuggets can form in quartz veins as a result of electricity produced by the pressure of earthquakes. The gold is carried in super-hot liquids from the Earth's core to its ...