Without the ocean, the climate crisis would be even worse than it is. Each year, the ocean absorbs billions of tons of carbon from the atmosphere, preventing warming that greenhouse gas would otherwi… [+5245 chars]
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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]
A team of researchers from KU Leuven, the University of Aveiro, OLYMAT, the University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU and the Ikerbasque, Basque Foundation for Science has used a scanning tunneling mi… [+2524 chars]
What happens when a cat climbs onto a sunflower? The sunflower is unstable, will quickly bend, and the cat will fall to the ground. However, if the cat only needs a quick boost to catch a bird from t… [+6255 chars]
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. … [+2466 chars]
According to reports, biophysicist He Jiankui, who received a three-year sentence for developing the world’s first genetically modified babies, may be freed from a Chinese prison this week. Jiankui … [+1861 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]
Saskatchewan, Canada (CNN) – The night sky has been a source of information and wonder since the dawn of humankind — and it looks almost the same now as it did then. But the night sky as we know it i… [+5308 chars]
NASA scientists have devised a new, all-encompassing technique of transmitting communications into space. As per the new study, the idea is to transmit humanity’s unique fingerprint to anybody who co… [+1706 chars]
NASA looked to complete its Artemis moon rocket tanking test at Kennedy Space Center after an issue forced a scrub on Sunday, but a new valve issue forced mission managers to call it off again. NASA… [+3409 chars]
A small asteroid called 2022 GN1 will fly past Earth at a very safe distance of 127,000 kilometers (79,000 miles) one-third of the distance between the Earth and the Moon between April 5 and April 6… [+1045 chars]