Published in the journal science under the unassuming title Filling the Gaps, researchers from the Telomere-to-Telomere (T2T) Consortium have reported an advance that may prove instrumental in scient… [+1666 chars]
NASA'S Mars orbiter has captured a stunning scene of the Red Planet but that's not all. Hidden in the photo are two very important objects. Can you work out what you're seeing here? It's a scientif… [+3363 chars]
A space rock the size of a skyscraper that scientists deemed "potentially hazardous" sailed harmlessly past Earth today (April 1) around 4:35 p.m. ET. Even though theasteroid only flew within roug… [+2024 chars]
An international team of investigators, including several researchers in biological sciences from the U of A, have published a paper that reports the discovery of a developmental gene linked to touch… [+3142 chars]
A small sample of dust collected by Neil Armstrong will go up for auction next month. A lunar dust sample collected by Neil Armstrong during the Apollo 11 mission will be hammered into New York next… [+4268 chars]
The biggest known ice volcanoes, which spew ice instead of lava, are located on Pluto. Now it turns out size is not the only feature setting apart Pluto's "cryovolcanoes" from all others. In a stud… [+5668 chars]
There are so many secrets in space for humanity to unravel. And the same applies to our very own Earth! The question about our planet that arises the most is- how was the earth formed? Now, a rare ga… [+2182 chars]
Supernova Cassiopeia A is one of the best-studied supernova remnants in the Milky Way. From our point of view, the shell of plasma has been expanding for 350 years at an average rate of between 4,000… [+2465 chars]
Prehistoric mammals bulked up, rather than develop bigger brains, to boost their survival chances once dinosaurs had become extinct, research suggests. For the first 10 million years after dinosaurs… [+4065 chars]
Tomorrow's weather may be cloudy with a chance of electrons, thanks to a newly detected phenomenon in Earth's magnetic shield. Described as unexpected, ultra-fast "electron precipitation," the pheno… [+3371 chars]
An abundance of food for astronauts venturing on long-duration space missions would be utterly important to keep the wheels of planetary exploration moving. While scientists have already grown plants… [+2408 chars]
In a new photo captured by Hubble, what appears to be a calm spiral galaxy belies the supermassive black hole at its nucleus. The photo, captured by the Hubble Space Telescope, shows a galaxy that … [+2062 chars]
