Ice on the surface of the Moon, known so far to be dry and airless, is likely protected by ancient magnetic fields, according to a new study. Sunlight does not reach the polar craters on the Moon be… [+2175 chars]
When completed, the GMT will stand 65 meters high and include seven of the largest parabolic telescope mirrors ever built. Each 27.6-foot (8.4-meter) diameter mirror has an 83.33-foot (25.4-meter) mi… [+1227 chars]
Ice on the surface of the Moon, known so far to be dry and airless, is likely protected by ancient magnetic fields, according to a new study. Sunlight does not reach the polar craters on the Moon be… [+2175 chars]
A new study by scientists at The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory at MIT provides the most comprehensive and rigorous evidence yet that the mammalian brain stores a single memory across a wi… [+8483 chars]
When the asteroid struck, it sent molten debris into the air that later cooled into spherules of glass, which millions of years later were discovered on the North Dakota site known as Tanis preserved… [+1083 chars]
image: Generally, E. coli pumps protons into extracellular space by the respiratory chain with consuming carbon atoms in the TCA cycle, produces ATP by ATP synthase using the generated proton gradien… [+5272 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]
A powerful radio-wavelength laser light has been detected from deep space, at the longest distance ever detected. It’s a type of massless cosmic object called a megamaser, and its light traveled 5 bi… [+3400 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]
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]
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]
More than 13 months after the Perseverance rover landed on Mars (on February 18, 2021), the rovers cameras have finally spotted some of the parts of the Mars 2020 landing system that got the rover sa… [+3743 chars]
