Chemists at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST) have developed an organic catalyst that can drive reactions using pyruvate a key biomolecule in many metabolic p… [+4029 chars]
China's first Mars orbiter is keeping tabs on multiple robots on the Red Planet's surface. The Tianwen 1 orbiter recently captured photos of the Zhurong rover, its partner on the Tianwen 1 Mars miss… [+3341 chars]
Astronomers have detected a cloud of dust the size of a whole star, 330 light-years away. Its cause? A colossal smash-up between two exoplanets that were still just forming. We know this because ast… [+5150 chars]
University of Sydney scientists have used the geological record of the deep sea to discover that past global warming has sped up deep ocean circulation. This is one of the missing links for predictin… [+4122 chars]
Physicists believe that the discovery of mysterious vortex waves suggests that there is new solar physics to be uncovered. They have said that these new set of waves in the Sun, unexpectedly, appea… [+1821 chars]
In a new study, researchers at the Institute for the Advanced Study of Human Biology (ASHBi), report a new approach to reveal the temporal regulation of hundreds of gene regulatory motifs involved in… [+2472 chars]
On March 21, 2022, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) announced that the number of known exoplanets exceeded 5,000.1 It was just 30 years ago that astronomers discovered the first exoplanetmuch has … [+5948 chars]
A team of ETH researchers headed by Athina Anastasaki were successful in breaking down plastic into its molecular building blocks and recovering over 90% of them. This is the first step towards genui… [+5141 chars]
American astronaut of Iranian descent Jasmin Moghbeli has been selected to travel to the International space Station on the Crow-7 SpaceX mission. Moghbeli is a US Marine Corps test pilot and NASA a… [+828 chars]
A tiny problem Scientists can grow nanocrystals out of many different materials: metals, semiconductors, and magnets will each yield different properties. But the trouble was that whenever they trie… [+3333 chars]
The development of quantum computers is being pursued worldwide, and there are various concepts of how computing using the properties of the quantum world can be implemented. Many of these have alrea… [+3373 chars]
The later stages of pregnancy can make life difficult as the fetus presses against the diaphragm, making it hard to breathe. But snakes that constrict their victims before swallowing them whole have … [+4130 chars]