The potential existence of gravitational waves was first predicted by Albert Einstein in 1916, as a part of his general theory of relativity, but they werent detected until nearly a century later, in… [+4990 chars]
Modeling the impact of meteorological forces on the Red Sea shows that winds in the southern part of the sea modulate sea-level surges across the basin. A study of the relative contributions of surf… [+3321 chars]
Ancient people would have been greeted with a huge wall of ice (Stock image/Getty) A wall of ice thousands of feet high would have blocked ancient people from entering America via a land bridge fro… [+3244 chars]
image: Astronauts assigned for the Crew-4 Commercial Crew Program (CCP) mission, scheduled to launch in April 2022, include, left to right, NASA astronauts Jessica Watkins, Robert Bob Hines, and Kjel… [+17487 chars]
On March 11, a small, 6-foot-wide asteroid hit Earth off the coast of Norway. <ul><li>Technology from NASA tracked the rocks movements two hours before it hit the planet. </li><li>This technology c… [+2628 chars]
Newswise — The study, in which the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) and the Universidad Estatal Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho (Júlio de Mesquita Filho Paulista State University) (UNESP) of … [+3882 chars]
Imagine the brain as a giant switchboard covered with thousands of buttons, knobs, dials and levers that control aspects of our thought, emotions, behavior, and memory. (You can think of the movie In… [+8049 chars]
Ancient people would have been greeted with a huge wall of ice (Stock image/Getty) A wall of ice thousands of feet high would have blocked ancient people from entering America via a land bridge fro… [+3244 chars]
A scientist from the University of Portsmouth devised an experiment that they believe confirms the fifth state of matter, a discovery that would change the field of physics for good, a press release … [+2583 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]
Metallic materials used in engineering must be strong and ductile -- capable of carrying high mechanical loads while able to withstand deformation without breaking. Whether a material is weak or stro… [+6045 chars]
Blood contains a mixture of exosomes secreted from nearly all tissues and cells, and exosomes from other tissues can mask changes caused by disease, making it difficult to detect the presence of biom… [+1737 chars]