It's recommended that people get 150 minutes of moderate to vigorous physical activity a week. But the part of this advice that people often ignore is that we should do muscle strengthening exercises… [+5959 chars]
Robotic exploration of the red planet has taught us a great deal about our nearest planetary neighbor, and NASA’s Curiosity rover had an outsized role in accomplishing that. Its successor, a very sim… [+2520 chars]
Common polymers used to mimic the natural crowding inside the cell may “steal” ions. They are real ion thieves! Credit: IPC PAS, Grzegorz Krzyzewski Cells produce many different complexes. These com… [+8215 chars]
This year marks the 100th anniversary of the adoption of the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, guaranteeing women the right to vote. "Past, Present, and Future of Women in Space," is an inspir… [+941 chars]
In the future, you may have a squid to thank for your coffee staying hot on a cold day. Drawing inspiration from cephalopod skin, engineers at the University of California, Irvine invented an adaptiv… [+4436 chars]
Citing unacceptable levels of high risk, NASA and the European Space Agency have made key adjustments to a highly complex future mission that will attempt to bring Martian surface samples to Earth. … [+3596 chars]
Europe’s Solar Orbiter probe recently captured the closest images ever taken of our star, revealing new details about its corona. The spacecraft continues on its way with a new perihelion (closest po… [+2477 chars]
The northern lights have a certain magical quality, so it's no surprise there are many myths and ... [+] legends surrounding them. getty Thanks to scientific research, we now know what causes the n… [+4529 chars]
The European Space Agency is scrambling to figure out the ExoMars rovers next-possible launch window after the agency suspended cooperation with the Russian space agency, Roscosmos, over Russias inva… [+2551 chars]
In its more than three decades of actively observing the universe, the Hubble Space telescope has broadened humanitys horizons more than anyone might have expected when it was first launched. But des… [+1089 chars]
NASA is nearing the end of fine-tuning the James Webb Space Telescope as calibrations are expected to wrap up by the end of June. The space agency has gone through more than 1,000 potential research… [+1098 chars]
image: Dr. Marcus Jeschke, head of junior research group Cognitive Hearing in Primates (Chip).view more Credit: Karin Tilch/Deutsches Primatenzentrum According to estimates by the World Health Org… [+5243 chars]
