Parkinson’s disease is a brain disorder that affects movement. Parkinson’s disease symptoms usually begin gradually and get worse over time. The disease affects about 50 percent more men than women.… [+2836 chars]
Two astronauts exited the International Space Station airlock on Tuesday on a nearly 7-hour spacewalk to continue the years-long process of upgrading the orbiting laboratory’s power grid. NASA Astro… [+1870 chars]
Catalysts are workhorses that help reactions occur. Put to work, they transform starting materials, such as fossil fuels, biomass or even waste, into products and fuels with minimal energy. Research… [+4298 chars]
A massive release of greenhouse gases, likely triggered by volcanic activity, caused a period of abrupt global warming known as the Paleocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM) 56 million years ago. A new… [+4411 chars]
Climate scientist Elizabeth Barnes uses neural networks and explainable artificial intelligence to answer pressing questions about Earth's climate. These cutting-edge, machine-learning methods help u… [+1925 chars]
A member of Paul Schmidt’s laboratory at the University of Pennsylvania checks on an enclosure in the experimental orchard set up to study fruit fly evolution. The team’s findings documented some of … [+7087 chars]
Reading Time: 2minutesNASA’s James Webb Space Telescope‘s main mirror is now fully aligned, the agency officials have said. Webb’s team now expects that the telescope’s optical performance will be a… [+3078 chars]
A team of researchers led by the University of Copenhagen recently looked at volcanic eruptions on Earth for the last 60,000 years. To estimate the number and intensity of these eruptions, the scient… [+2260 chars]
A theorized huge, ninth planet beyond the orbit of Neptune once again wasn't found in a new survey of the solar system's outer reaches. Astronomers scanned a large portion of the sky using the 6-met… [+3318 chars]
Cryo-EM illuminated never-before-seen structures in the membrane of the protein. Credit: Northwestern University Methanotrophic bacteria consume 30 million metric tons of methane per year and have c… [+4900 chars]
An asteroid around the size of a refrigerator was spotted hours before it hit Earth's atmosphere, and while it wasn't dangerous, it marked the fifth time in history an asteroid was detected right bef… [+3423 chars]
University of Colorado Boulder researchers have developed a new tool that could lead to more efficient and cheaper technologies for capturing heat-trapping gases from the atmosphere and converting th… [+4827 chars]
