THE DODO could be brought back to life hundreds of years after going extinct thanks to a DNA breakthrough. Scientists have managed to sequence the entire genome of the flightless bird for the first … [+2487 chars]
Polarization, the direction in which light vibrates, provides a lot of information about the objects with which it interacts, from aerosols in the atmosphere to the magnetic field of stars. However,… [+3137 chars]
A potential cornucopia of neuroactive compounds, which might yield clues to the design of future psychiatric and neurological drugs, has become more accessible to synthetic chemists, thanks to new wo… [+3243 chars]
HOUSTON, Texas: Having lived more than 340 days in space after his 9th April, 2021 launch, NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei has broken the record for the longest U.S. spaceflight, even as his mission in… [+1450 chars]
ATLANTA (AP) NASA Administrator Bill Nelson on Friday played down recent comments by the head of Russias space agency that the United States would have to use broomsticks to fly to space after Russia… [+2019 chars]
The more sensitive the instrument, the harder it is to keep clean. Essentially, this was the case for the James Webb Space Telescope while it awaited launch late last year, after it arrived at Aria… [+4649 chars]
How do you bring together two molecules that positively repel each other? A Northwestern University-led research team has developed a simple and versatile solution: Introduce an electron with a jolt … [+4346 chars]
While studying systems with tidal distortions, astronomers have identified three, potentially four objects that have been misclassified as exoplanets, and are actually small stars. The objects are mo… [+2141 chars]
Researchers led by the University of Bristol show that the earliest jaws in the fossil record were caught in a trade-off between maximising their strength and their speed.Almost all vertebrates are j… [+2942 chars]
Something unusual is happening in the depths of the Arctic ocean: sinkholes are opening up on the seabed, some as large as a city block! This discovery, published in the Proceedings of the National… [+3099 chars]
In physics, simplicity is beauty. Chinese astronomers, using devices including the world's most sensitive radio telescope, identified a single parameter to describe the mysterious repeating fast radi… [+2159 chars]
The rover’s self-driving capabilities will be put to the test this month as it begins a record-breaking series of sprints to its next sampling location. NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover is trying to c… [+6906 chars]
