A serendipitous discovery has led researchers from the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) in Kenya and the Roslin Institute at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland to identify a gen… [+4890 chars]
Credit: CC0 Public Domain On April 18, NASA decided to move forward with plans to complete the deployment of the Lucy spacecraft’s stalled, unlatched solar array. The spacecraft is powered by two la… [+2615 chars]
Researchers have developed a new measurement and imaging approach that can resolve nanostructures smaller than the diffraction limit of light without requiring any dyes or labels. The work represents… [+3960 chars]
A geologic formation near Aix-en-Provence, France, is famed as one of the world's chief treasure troves of fossil species from the Cenozoic Era. Since the late 1700s, scientists there have been unear… [+6079 chars]
image: Crew on the WHOI-operated research vessel Neil Armstrong prepare to deploy a sediment corer to the seafloor of the Puerto Rico Trench.view more Credit: (Photo by Paul Walczak, Oregon State U… [+4807 chars]
Researchers at ISTA discover a crucial process that enables immune cells to get to where they are needed. Study published in Science. To get to the places where they are needed, immune cells not onl… [+4887 chars]
After more than a year of accomplishments, NASA has extended flight operations for the Mars Innovation helicopter through September. The space agency’s $2.2 billion spacecraft touched down on Mars … [+3281 chars]
In brief: Say the words holographic doctor, and many peoplewell, Star Trek fansmight think of the dry-witted Emergency Medical Hologram Mark I, aka The Doctor, from Star Trek: Voyager. But while that… [+2279 chars]
Since its inception, the Internet has fundamentally changed all parts of human society for both good and ill, and medical research is no exception. The fast pace of change enabled by digital technolo… [+2733 chars]
The U-shaped relationship between diet and size in modern land mammals could also stand for universal, says a new study, which has found that the relationship spans at least 66 million years and a ra… [+7352 chars]
Of the thousands of exoplanets we’ve discovered, most of them closely orbit red dwarf stars. Part of this is because planets with short orbital periods are easier to find, but part of this is that re… [+3274 chars]
An illustration featuring mammalian herbivores (green), omnivores (purple), invertivores (yellow) and carnivores (red). Each column includes mammal species lost in the past 2.58 million years (light … [+9073 chars]
