A research team led by Prof. Liu Baozhong from the Institute of Oceanology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (IOCAS) revealed that cytoskeletal molecules (actomyosin) play a key role in the early sh… [+2392 chars]
Water is one of the fundamental ingredients for life on Earth and covers around 71 per cent of our planet's surface, but it is also far more diverse than most of us would think. Now scientists have … [+7371 chars]
Introducing self-evolving RNA created by scientists at the University of Tokyo. It offers insights into how simple biological molecules can lead to the emergence of complex lifelike systems. This se… [+2450 chars]
Although late detection of asteroids can prove suicidal for Earth, it seems to have been lucky this time. Well, we are not kidding. Recently, an asteroid, which was around the size of a refrigerat… [+1416 chars]
Scientists who helped to pioneer the use of enzymes to eat plastic have taken an important next step in developing nature-based solutions to the global plastics crisis.They have characterised an enzy… [+2629 chars]
Russia has been the target of extensive economic sanctions in the weeks since its invasion of Ukraine, but Moscow’s space program has been largely unaffected until now. The European Space Agency (ESA… [+2427 chars]
What falls into a black hole, stays in a black hole, at least according to the laws of general relativity. But now, new research suggests that the material inside the black hole may leave a quantum i… [+4188 chars]
Astronomers using data gathered from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope have characterised a cataclysmic collision between two planetesimals in orbit around HD 166191. The star is located at a distance o… [+3244 chars]
RESEARCHERS have spotted evidence of a debris cloud from a massive cosmic collision. Scientists estimate that the two objects involved in the space crash were at least the size of dwarf planets. An… [+2036 chars]
A plethora of worlds and a bright star will be visible in the early morning Wednesday (March 23) to predawn risers. All in the sky during the same period will be ringed Saturn, bright Mars, and clou… [+2393 chars]
Space images are mesmerising. There is no doubt about that. Though we know a lot about what's out there, there's lot that is still to be found. But sometimes old images reveal something astoundingly … [+1137 chars]
It was a good week for physics research as work by two teams of theorists working independently may have solved Stephen Hawking's black hole paradox. The first demonstrated that black holes are more … [+2340 chars]
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