Asteroid Ryugu could be a remnant of an extinct comet that spent tens of thousands of years racing through the solar system, new data suggests. Scientists believe it was then vaporised by high tempe… [+6783 chars]
Using a previously published and carefully curated 68-gene dataset, the scientists ran a battery of mathematical models to reconstruct the evolution of protein sequencesthe results of which, have bee… [+3959 chars]
A combination of machine learning, sophisticated supercomputer simulations and data from large scale surveys of the cosmos have resulted in researchers getting closer to solve a 20 year old conundrum… [+3341 chars]
image: OCT studies without noise. A new method for better detection of eye diseases. Photo: Karol Karnowskiview more Credit: Source IPC PAS/ICTER, Karol Karnowski Worldwide, as many as 285 million… [+6945 chars]
The Soyuz MS-21 crew ship (upper left) with three cosmonauts aboard approaches the space station for a docking on March 18. Credit: NASA The International Space Station is hosting 10 individuals aft… [+2299 chars]
First predicted in Einstein’s theory of general relativity, gravitational waves are tiny ripples in spacetime generated by titanic and powerful cosmic events. The great physicist believed that no equ… [+2607 chars]
WHY GO TO all the trouble of designing and building a drone if nature has already done most of the job for you? That is the attitude taken by the small but determined band of researchers who are tryi… [+2827 chars]
image: The sand dollar Mellitella stokesiiview more Credit: Rich Mooi (CC BY 4.0) New insight on the origins and early evolution of echinoids, a group that includes the sea urchins, the sand dolla… [+6394 chars]
NASA has confirmed that there are more than 5,000 known planets outside our solar system, known as exoplanets. The US space agency has added another 65 exoplanets to the online NASA Exoplanet Archi… [+7565 chars]
Making use of the LAMOST spectra data as the training sample, a research team led by Dr. Wang Shoucheng and Prof. Ma Jun from National Astronomical Observatories of Chinese Academy of Sciences (NAOC)… [+3040 chars]
After a large number of asteroids flew past the Earth last week, it appears the bombardment is not going to stop any time soon. There are more asteroids hurtling towards Earth, and the latest one amo… [+2219 chars]
Washington: NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover is trying to cover more distance in a single month than any rover before, using artificial intelligence. The six-wheeled scientist is on a 5-kilometre jour… [+2590 chars]
