Yannis Papastamatiou, Florida International University Sitting anchored to the rocky reef 70 feet (21 meters) below the surface of the ocean, hundreds of scalloped hammerhead sharks swam above me in… [+6836 chars]
Astronauts heading to the Moon in a few years would have to face intense cosmic radiation which would expose them to serious risk of cancer and degenerative diseases. To avoid this possibility, the E… [+2145 chars]
Collective dynamics are ubiquitous in the natural world. From neural circuits to animal groups, there are countless instances in which the interactions among large numbers of elementary units bestow … [+2906 chars]
The Sun just hurled debris from a dead sunspot toward Earth, and the superheated material is supposed to arrive at our planet on Thursday (dont worryyou wont feel it). On Monday, an old and dying s… [+2274 chars]
The 2012 Lyrid meteor shower as captured by astronaut Don Pettit aboard the International Space Station. NASA The first quarter of each year is a relatively quiet period for meteor showers, but th… [+2101 chars]
Teleportation may be a concept usually reserved for science fiction, but researchers have demonstrated that it can be used to avoid loss in communication channels on the quantum level. The team, inc… [+3422 chars]
Seeing the planets of the Solar System aligned in a neat line is one of many awe-inspiring stargazing experiences we can get and this month you could have a chance to see it with your own eyes. From… [+2576 chars]
A spectacular head-on collision between two galaxies fueled an unusual triangular-shaped star-birthing frenzy. The interacting galaxy captured in this image from the Hubble Space Telescope is collec… [+984 chars]
The farthest astronomical object in the universe has been identified: a galaxy called Hd1 that is about 13.5 billion light-years away from us. Born only 300 million years after the Big Bang, it could… [+1934 chars]
It's rare for moral controversy to surround developments in space-based astronomy, but that may be about to change forever. New information about the namesake of the James Webb Space Telescope has l… [+3935 chars]
image: The micro-scaffold under the microscopeview more Credit: TU Wien It is an age old dream of medicine: if arbitrary kinds of tissue could be produced artificially from stem cells, then injuri… [+4587 chars]
British institutions to receive £15m in funding for international project strengthening telescopic data More than £15 million has been awarded to UK research institutions for work developing the “br… [+243 chars]
