The paper presents a complete 3.055 billion-base pair sequence of a specific human genome, T2T-CHM13, adding 400 million letters to the previously sequenced DNA and correcting several errors in it. … [+2470 chars]
If you hope to one day visit Mars, expect everything to sound much slower than on Earth and eerily quiet, according to new research using NASA's Perseverance rover. Before the rover landed on the r… [+2446 chars]
Here's another thing to do with that mountain of used plastic: make it soak up excess carbon dioxide. What seems like a win-win for a pair of pressing environmental problems describes a Rice Univers… [+3266 chars]
Studying the Earth’s metallic core, researchers have found that helium that was produced shortly after the Big Bang has been leaking out. The great bulk of this gas in the universe, known as helium-… [+3727 chars]
Research leaders often seek to open up areas of research for further generations of scientists.Credit: Getty Researchers have many ways to establish a legacy, including technical innovation, commerc… [+13362 chars]
Using a protein nanoparticle they designed, scientists at the University of Illinois Chicago have identified two distinct subtypes of neutrophils and found that one of the subtypes can be used as a d… [+4428 chars]
Electrical synapses are omnipresent and yet hardly explored. They are part of the brain of almost every animal species, yet they remain usually invisible even under the electron microscope. "Electri… [+3496 chars]
For the first time in the scientific record, squid have been observed changing their coloration to blend into their surroundings. You might wonder how it took the scientific community so long to catc… [+3004 chars]
Filaments of plasma escaped from a fiery canyon that opened on the sun’s surface on Sunday (April 3) releasing powerful streams of magnetized solar wind (opens in new tab) that might bring more aur… [+2996 chars]
NASA's GEDI mission has reached a major milestone with the release of its newest data product, which provides the first near-global estimate of aboveground forest biomass and the carbon it storesfill… [+5600 chars]
Har Gobind Khorana receives NIH lecture award Wikimedia Commons 2022 marks the 100th birthday of Nobel Prize winning chemist Har Gobind Khorana or so we think. The exact date of his birth is not kno… [+6277 chars]
Time is the apparent progression of events from past to future. While it's impossible to completely define the nature of time, we all share many common experiences bound by time: Causes lead naturall… [+8694 chars]
