Classical helioseismology, which relies on acoustic waves, has been successfully applied to image the Sun’s interior rotation and structure. However, acoustic waves are insensitive to parameters such… [+1973 chars]
It takes expensive tools to learn about the universe, but projects like the Very Large Array for radio astronomy in New Mexico and the Chandra X-ray Observatory, which orbits Earth, have pushed scien… [+7267 chars]
Nagin Cox wants to make sure someone has wished you a happy landiversary. Where she works, its an event akin to New Years or the Fourth of July, though it has more to do with rockets than fireworks.… [+7575 chars]
Thirty years ago, on the flanks of a volcano in California’s Sierra Nevada range, trees began to die en masse, suffocated at their roots by carbon dioxide seeping up from the mountain’s depths after … [+6014 chars]
Bacteria, fungi, and yeast are very good at excreting useful substances such as weak acids. One way in which they do this is through passive diffusion of molecules across the cell membrane. At the sa… [+5240 chars]
With its runaway climate-change and roiling, toxic atmosphere, Venus would be a pretty unpleasant place for humans to inhabit in its current state. Its atmosphere is dense with poisonous carbon dioxi… [+7785 chars]
The Solar Orbiter (SolO) captured 'unprecedented' images of our Sun earlier this month as it approached the midway point between the Earth and its star, the European Space Agency (ESA) recently said … [+2640 chars]
Researchers at UC Davis are developing transgenic lettuce that could one day provide medicine as well as morale-boosting food on the International Space Station and beyond Researchers at University… [+8714 chars]
A pair of researchers from Universit´e Paris-Saclay, CNRS and Univ Rennes, CNRS, IPR, respectively, has used math to help describe the process involved when short strands of fiber are twisted into lo… [+2795 chars]
A massive Geomagnetic storm has hit the Earth in the early hours of March 29, according to NASA. This geomagnetic storm was classified as a G-1 class storm on the K-index. After the storm struck the … [+2430 chars]
The Arctic is rapidly losing sea ice, and less ice means more open water, and more open water means more gas and aerosol emissions from the ocean into the air, warming the atmosphere and making it cl… [+4468 chars]
image: Former BTI postdoc Max Helf developed Metaboseek after seeing his labmates struggle with data analysis software.view more Credit: Biognosys AG As a postdoctoral research associate in the la… [+5525 chars]
