Science news articles about 'behemoth'

  • The behemoth has a thick belt

    ... weighs almost half of what was previously thought, thereby solving the mystery of its existence. The behemoth star is found to be surrounded by a massive and thick torus of gas and dust, and is most ...
  • Ten Times the Turbine

    ... towns, made up of turbines 30 stories tall with blades the size of 747 wings. Those behemoths produce a great deal of power, but manufacturing, transporting, and installing them is both expensive and ...
  • Hubble Survey Finds Missing Matter, Probes Intergalactic Web

    ... the universe contains billions of galaxies, only a small amount of its matter is locked up in these behemoths. Most of the universe's matter that was created during and just after the Big Bang must ...
  • No-fishing zones studied for ecosystem protection

    ... -pound grouper used to be just an average day on the water in the Florida Keys. The abundance of behemoth fish attracted anglers from around the world in the early 1900s, including adventurers such as ...
  • Quantum computing breakthrough arises from unknown molecule

    ... are now more realistic." The workings of traditional computers haven't changed since they were room-sized behemoths 50 years ago; they still use bits of information, 1s and 0s, to store and process ...
  • Brocade to acquire Foundry Networks for $3B

    (AP) -- Brocade Communications Systems Inc. says it is paying $3 billion in cash and stock to acquire Foundry Networks Inc., a deal designed to challenge industry behemoth Cisco Systems Inc.
  • Universe's first star born tiny, grew huge: study

    ... object to brighten the dark, primordial universe after the Big Bang was the tiny seed of a star that rapidly grew into a behemoth 100 times more massive than the sun, scientists said on Thursday.
  • Yale astronomer discovers upper mass limit for black holes

    ... at the center of our own Milky Way galaxy is thousands of times less massive than these behemoths. But these gigantic black holes, which accumulate mass by sucking in matter from neighboring gas, ...
  • Researcher Looks For Better Way to Kill Cancer Cells

    ... -Pelecky brought more with her when she arrived at UT Dallas than expertise in nanotechnology and shiny behemoth lab equipment. She brought an award for $84,000 from the National Institutes of Health ...
  • Major Progress Made Towards Historic Census Of Marine Life In 2010

    ... depths. Among revelations in fourth interim global highlights report are the Antarctic ancestry of many octopus species and the discovery of Behemoth bacteria, colossal sea stars and mammoth mollusks.
  • Fossils Reveal Mammoth Snake

    Fossils from northeastern Colombia reveal the biggest snake ever discovered: a behemoth that stretched 42 to 45 feet long, reaching more than 2,500 pounds.
  • The Amphibious Ancestors of Whales

    ... and remarkable story of how furry, four-legged land mammals eventually gave rise to behemoth marine descendants. A spectacular fossil find, reported yesterday in PLoS One, reveals some amazing ...
  • Fossil of 43-foot super-snake Titanoboa found in Colombia

    At 2,500 pounds and as long as a school bus, Titanoboa could swallow crocodiles. It lived after dinosaurs died out, and changes scientists' ideas about 'how big a snake can be.' ...
  • Life secret exposed: Scientists unlock mystery of molecular machine

    ... visible only through lenses of the most powerful microscopes, comparing most other biological molecules to this behemoth is like comparing a tricycle to a jumbo jet. Having spent years gazing at the ...
  • Scientists discover an Earth-sized planet

    HATFIELD, England (AP) -- Scientists say they've discovered a planet outside our solar system that is close to Earth in size - far different from the behemoths they had previously seen so far....

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