Enlarge/ Illustration of a swarm of smaller black holes in a gas disk rotating around a giant black hole. 42 with 21 posters participating In 2019, the LIGO/VIRGO collaboration picked up a gravitat… [+2915 chars]
As a molecular machine found in the cells of all organisms, the ribosome is responsible for making new proteins. It reads the blueprint for a certain protein on a messenger moleculeknown as messenger… [+3532 chars]
We remember it in 2016, to celebrate the 55th birthdayAnd the Trip memory Yuri Gagarin On April 12, 1961, Russian billionaire Yuri Milner announced – with the support of Stephen Hawking – He was laun… [+5575 chars]
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De-extinction is the process of resurrecting species that have died out or gone extinct. This seems to have provided some people an opportunity to expand diversity of species and bring back animals w… [+3189 chars]
LGBT+ physicists often face harassment and other behaviors that make them leave the profession, according to a new study, which comes as physics as a discipline has attempted to grapple with equity a… [+6422 chars]
From sunflowers to starfish, symmetry appears everywhere in biology. This isn't just true for body plans -- the molecular machines keeping our cells alive are also strikingly symmetric. But why? Does… [+2498 chars]
image: Pictured is a continuously spouting cauldron of near-boiling water, one of a dozen spanning a 10-acre geothermal field at Mangra in southern Tibet. Helium-isotope geochemistry shows it sits ab… [+7027 chars]
