Archerfishes are the anti-aircraft gunners of the aquatic world. The fishes are famed for their amazing ability to shoot down land-based insects midflight with highly accurate streams of water they p… [+5566 chars]
STARGAZERS have not one but TWO celestial displays to look forward to in the coming days. The Lyrids meteor shower and a full pink moon will both grace night skies above the U.S. and U.K. this week.… [+2580 chars]
Regardless of who we are or where we come from, everyone at some point in their lives ponders whether or not life exists beyond the Earth. For the first time in human history, we now possess the info… [+4042 chars]
Electron microscopy enables researchers to visualize tiny objects such as viruses, the fine structures of semiconductor devices, and even atoms arranged on a material surface. Focusing down the elect… [+2512 chars]
Archerfishes are the anti-aircraft gunners of the aquatic world. The fishes are famed for their amazing ability to shoot down land-based insects midflight with highly accurate streams of water they p… [+5566 chars]
A chromosome connected to auditory maturation in adults has recently been associated to perceptual growth in marine invertebrates as well. The pou-iv (pow-four) genotype is discovered in the appenda… [+3692 chars]
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has transformed the field of neuroscience over the past 40 years, enabling scientists to create clear snapshots of living brain structures and even detect functional … [+3477 chars]
A giant impact billions of years ago near Earth’s moon’s south pole may help explain why the near side and far side are so different. The face that the moon shows to Earth looks far different from t… [+3940 chars]
On Feb. 14, NASA's Lucy spacecraft, which is in the first few months of its journey to the Trojan asteroids, obtained a series of calibration images with its four visible-light cameras. The first tes… [+1801 chars]
New research from the Hubble Space Telescope has revealed details behind two super-hot Jupiter planets, one where it rains vapourised rock and another where its atmosphere is being sunburned by its s… [+2244 chars]
New research from the Hubble Space Telescope has revealed details behind two super-hot Jupiter planets, one where it rains vapourised rock and another where its atmosphere is being sunburned by its s… [+2244 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]
