The issue around renaming the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has not been settled yet as new revelations claim NASA was completely aware of the alleged homophobia exhibited by the telescope's name… [+2101 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]
Apr 5 2022Reviewed by Alex Smith An international group of scientists, including many from the University of Hawai‘i (UH) at Mānoa, has computed five important ecological processes on over 500 coral… [+4041 chars]
Over the years, there have been a number of proposed explanations for why the forelimbs of the T. rex were so short. These include social signaling, holding down prey, stabbing enemies, helping the d… [+2372 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]
Biomedical engineers at Duke University believe they have discovered the physical mechanism that causes high doses of antibiotics to promote the spread of antibiotic resistance between bacteria.The c… [+4673 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]
AB Aurigae b is still only a baby as far as planets go. It's a giant gas planet that scientists have discovered in the early stages of its formation. And it's already breaking records in astronomy. A… [+8468 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]
image: The Australian native social parasitic bee Inquilina and its host Exoneuraview more Credit: Flinders University Like diseases affecting humans, parasites can wage a deadly evolutionary “arm… [+2990 chars]
The Hubble Space Telescope has observed the most distant star ever seen Earendel, meaning morning star. Even though Earendel is 50 times the mass of the Sun, and millions of times brighter, we would … [+4713 chars]
The term near-Earth object or NEO refers to any celestial body of a significant size. The starting point is to find out those objects whose orbit brings them close to Earth. These include asteroids, … [+3660 chars]
