The massive and fearsome Tyrannosaurus Rex may be the most recognizable dinosaur of all time, but it has long been the butt of jokes due to its tiny, seemingly pointless arms. But according to one pa… [+2816 chars]
Scientists have observed an enormous planet about nine times the mass of Jupiter at a remarkably early stage of formation describing it as still in the womb in a discovery that challenges the curre… [+3967 chars]
On November 8, 2020, NASA's Juno spacecraft flew through an intense beam of electrons traveling from Ganymede, Jupiter's largest moon, to its auroral footprint on the gas giant. Southwest Research In… [+3986 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]
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]
The exoplanet, discovered by NASA's Kepler space telescope, officially designated K2-2016-BLG-0005Lb. (Image credit: D. Specht et al, Kepler K2 ) NASA's Kepler space telescope has spotted a Jupiter … [+4438 chars]
Aprils full Moon rises on Saturday, April 16, and reaches peak illumination at 2:57 p.m. ET. Lifehack: Enjoy the Pink Moons peak illumination while listening to Nick Drakes seminal, bittersweet 1972 … [+2223 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]
Scientists have created a 3D-printed fingertip that uses artificial nerve signals for a sense of touch similar to human skin. It could revolutionise the fields of soft robotics and prosthetics by mi… [+1910 chars]
Article content If there is intelligent life elsewhere in the universe, it could potentially receive a radio message of how to find Earth. Although the Beacon in the Galaxy (BITG) is not the first … [+3279 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]
New mutations occur at increasing rates in the mitochondrial genomes of developing egg cells in aging rhesus monkeys, but the increases appear to plateau at a certain age and are not as large as thos… [+5912 chars]
