During cell division in a mother cell, the 23 chromosomes that carry the human genome must be first copied and later delivered to two newly forming daughter cells. At least in healthy cells, the resu… [+5899 chars]
A team of researchers affiliated with multiple institutions in Japan has produced offspring from in vitroderived germ cells in rats. In their paper published in the journal Science, the group describ… [+2663 chars]
Physicists at the Australian National University have developed the most sensitive method ever for measuring the potential energy of an atom (within a hundredth of a decillionth of a joule -- or 10-3… [+3783 chars]
The Blue Origin NS-19 crew stand next to the New Shepard rocket after their successful launch on December 11, 2021 - Copyright AFP Ishara S. KODIKARA To its many detractors, space tourism amounts to… [+4677 chars]
Relationship between surface tension of pure liquids and internal wetting thresholds. Credit: Nano Research A recent study by researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences redefines how liquids m… [+4830 chars]
Last year, a genetic analysis of bone fragments representing our earliest known presence in Europe raised a few questions over the steps modern humans took to conquer every corner of the modern world… [+4724 chars]
Predicting how climate and the environment will change over time or how air flows over an aircraft are too complex even for the most powerful supercomputers to solve. Scientists rely on models to fil… [+5582 chars]
If you want to understand the evolution of planets, it helps to spot them young. The alignment of the James Webb Space Telescope's near-infrared instruments entered its "chilling" stage of the Mid-I… [+3435 chars]
Since astronomers began finding exoplanets in the 1990s, they've uncovered a lot of hot Jupiters, and now NASA's most venerable telescope is playing meteorologist. These colossal worlds are gas gia… [+3496 chars]
NASA's Curiosity Mars rover has taken an alternative path after spotting 'Gator-Back' rocks that could cause serious damage to its wheels. The team nicknamed them gator-back rocks because of their sc… [+1713 chars]
image: (a) The solution-solid-solid growth mechanism. (b) Two-step catalyzed growth for independent radial and axial size control of ZnSe QWs.view more Credit: ©Science China Press One-dimensional… [+2596 chars]
The European Space Agency (ESA) is learning how to touch down safely at the South Pole of the Moon, without ever leaving Earth. Actual Moon landings seem to be on the horizon in the next decade via t… [+4128 chars]