Explosion animation artists concept. Researchers from Skoltech, Carnegie Institution of Washington, Howard University, the University of Chicago, and the Chinese Academy of Sciences Institute of Sol… [+3717 chars]
An international research team uses a global sampling of seawater to reveal which tropical reef fish occur where. To identify species and families, they successfully used the residual DNA shed by the… [+5848 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]
The National Science Foundation has announced this year's winners of the prestigious Alan T. ... [+] Waterman Award, named after NSF's first director. getty The U.S. National Science Foundation ann… [+4666 chars]
At the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego, an international research group made use of computer model simulations to determine that climate change is changing the mechanics of surfac… [+3355 chars]
To get to the places where they are needed, immune cells not only squeeze through tiny pores. They even overcome wall-like barriers of tightly packed cells. Researchers at the Institute of Science an… [+5284 chars]
When a star strays too close to a black hole, intense tides break it apart into a stream of gas. This artists animation shows some of these remains surrounding the black hole as a disk of debris. Cre… [+4689 chars]
Imagine living amid a pile of bacteria. CoreyFord/Getty Humanity's wide-eyed vision of settling Mars might no longer be a sci-fi fantasy. NASA projects 2030 for when the first Martian steps will be… [+3168 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]
MIT chemists have devised a new chemical reaction that allows them to synthesize a phosphorus-containing ring, using a catalyst to add phosphorus to simple organic compounds called alkenes. Their re… [+5306 chars]
Humans propensity to kill large mammals from plant-eating herbivores to meat-eating carnivores is resulting in losses of species from both groups, a study says. It may also be "fundamentally" alter… [+4652 chars]
Closer to completing 32 years in activity, the Hubble Space Telescope never ceases to amaze us with its astoundingly impressive images Universe, This time, he brings us the record of what appears to … [+2157 chars]
