NASA has given Elon Musk’s SpaceX six additional flights to the International Space Station (ISS) under Commercial Resupply Services-2 (CRS-2) agreements for up to $14 billion. Northrop Grumman, a US… [+2049 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]
There are numerous ways of making two-and three-dimensional models of atoms and particles. Using a state-of-art approach that can image samples at the atomic scale, scientists observed that tradition… [+2895 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]
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]
The remains of Cassiopeia A, one of the most famous supernova explosions in the Milky Way, is not expanding evenly in all directions, according to a new study. The inner nebula of the much-studied … [+5082 chars]
Newly discovered deposits of layered ice in craters scattered around Mars' southern hemisphere provide insights into how the planet's orientation controlled the planet's climate over the past 4 milli… [+5119 chars]
Quantum complexity has attracted a lot of interest across various subfields of physics, from quantum computing to the theory of black holes. In recent years, physics has offered some conjecture to br… [+1970 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]
(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.)(THE CONVERSATION) Satellite images show the Arctic has been getting greener as temper… [+5287 chars]
Stem cell analyses could reveal how extra doses of some genes lead to the characteristics seen in males born with one or more surplus X chromosomes. One in every 500 to 1,000 males are born with one… [+3585 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… [+8660 chars]
