When NASA sent humans to the moon in 1969, one of the many hazards the agency had to anticipate was space rocks penetrating astronauts' spacesuits or equipment. Unlike Earth , which has a protective… [+3534 chars]
Australian researchers have used molecular scissors to discover the genetic causes of a common blood disorder, and give clues about how it might be treated. Scientists at UNSW have used CRISPR gene … [+1558 chars]
Property News: House prices in some school catchments explode by up to $367,000 - domain.com.au
Property News: House prices in some school catchments explode by up to $367,000 - domain.com.au
Property News: Music promoter Michael Coppel sells Toorak home for more than $30 million - domain.com.au
A decade ago, physicists wondered whether the discovery of the Higgs boson at Europes Large Hadron Collider would point to a new frontier beyond the Standard Model of subatomic particles. So far, tha… [+5346 chars]
When spacecraft first journeyed around the Moon, something unexpected was revealed: the far side has almost none of the lava flows we call seas or maria, which dominate what we can see from Earth. F… [+3640 chars]
Yale scientists have discovered that a protein known as augmentor-alpha regulates body weight in mice, an insight that could lead to new treatments for metabolic disorders. The findings were publish… [+4582 chars]
The "corpse" of a sunspot exploded Monday (April 11), triggering a mass ejection of solar material that is headed in Earth's direction. The explosion comes courtesy of a dead sunspot called AR2987, … [+4092 chars]
Just as our skin is key to our well-being, the skin covering desert soils is essential to life in dry places. This biocrust, made up of fungi, lichens, mosses, blue-green algae, and other microbes, r… [+4657 chars]
If you live far enough north or south on planet Earth, you may be lucky enough to see the northern/southern lights (aurora borealis/aurora australis). You'll likely be starstruck by these dazzling li… [+3829 chars]
How do planets form? For many years scientists thought they understood this process by studying the one example we had access to: our own solar system. However, the discovery of planets around dista… [+6788 chars]
