From the muscle fibers that move us to the enzymes that replicate our DNA, proteins are the molecular machinery that makes life possible.Protein function heavily depends on their three-dimensional st… [+6342 chars]
NASA plans to slam a vending machine-sized spacecraft into a space rock the size of a magnificent Egyptian pyramid in 2022. Itll be a first-of-its-kind test to see if they can sway an asteroid from i… [+3681 chars]
Telescopes that observe the universe in the most energetic form of light may help scientists detect the "fingerprints" of gravitational waves, new research reveals. Gravitational waves form when m… [+2427 chars]
A kindergartener in 2005 would have learned very different facts about the number of planets in the solar system than a kindergartener in 2006. Of course, Pluto was reclassified as a dwarf planet in … [+5749 chars]
World-renowned Greek astrophysicist, Stamatios Krimigis, says that a human settlement on Mars is a distant dream.Unlike Elon Musk who claims that colonization of the Red Planet is feasible in the not… [+5035 chars]
It's confirmed: The hottest rock ever discovered in Earth's crust really was super-hot. The rock, a fist-sized piece of black glass, was discovered in 2011 and first reported in 2017, when scientis… [+3366 chars]
In this illustration, an asteroid is shown in the foreground in the lower left. The two bright points above it on the far left are Earth (right) and the moon (left). The sun appears on the right. … [+3257 chars]
At this years South by Southwest Festival, I had the pleasure of asking a panel of experts some big questions about travel to Mars. The journey will push limits of the human body and may take us to t… [+13902 chars]
Maureen Hanson, the Liberty Hyde Bailey Professor of Plant Molecular Biology in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, and Myat Lin, research associate, work in their lab in the Biotechnology … [+5473 chars]
It's a question that has plagued astronomers for years: How did supermassive black holes, which can weigh billions of times the mass of the sun, grow so large, so quickly? Now, scientists are closer … [+4070 chars]
Light on, light off — this is how one could describe the behavior of the nova, which goes by the name RS Ophiuchi (RS Oph). Every 15 years or so, a dramatic explosion occurs in the constellation of t… [+2530 chars]
