In our age, we’ve grown accustomed to pictures of astronauts inside the International Space Station, as they float in zero-G and tend their science experiments. We’re even getting used to images of s… [+2172 chars]
A method for fabricating single-crystal graphene sheets on large-scale electrically insulating substrates could aid in the development of next-generation nanomaterial-based products such as very ligh… [+3345 chars]
New images of the Spiderweb protocluster of galaxies reveal an unusually high number of active supermassive black holes. Data from the Chandra X-ray Observatory collected over 8 days show that, in t… [+4167 chars]
Hidden in Plain Sight: faint galaxy discovered in our local universe The galaxy has a ghost-like' appearance in the optical images because of its low disk density, but the inner disk shows star for… [+612 chars]
In the aftermath of the asteroid impact 66 million years ago that doomed the dinosaurs, it appears that brawn was more important than brains for the mammals that managed to survive the calamity and c… [+1158 chars]
Half a century ago on the shoreline of a rocky tide pool, the ecologist Robert Paine discovered something amazing: the removal of a single species from an ecosystem could dramatically alter its struc… [+2653 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]
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]
Black hole illustration. Credit: Aurore Simonnet and NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center <ul><li>To look for black holes around the “Spiderweb” galaxy, astronomers observed for over 8 days with NASA’… [+4772 chars]
Hidden in Plain Sight: faint galaxy discovered in our local universe The galaxy has a ghost-like' appearance in the optical images because of its low disk density, but the inner disk shows star for… [+612 chars]
The Goldilocks zone gets its name from the fairy tale, "Goldilocks and the Three Bears". Goldilocks is a fussy little girl whose porridge has to be just right — neither too hot nor too cold. It’s the… [+7761 chars]
With the help of the Canadian Light Source (CLS) at the University of Saskatchewan, researchers from McGill University are trying to unlock the full potential of tiny biological machines that can hav… [+2477 chars]
