Earlier this week, private space technology company Astrobotic unveiled its new robotic lunar lander. Called Peregrine, the 6-foot-tall probe is scheduled to land on the Moon later this year. Pereg… [+2881 chars]
According to a survey conducted by dating app Bumble, the pandemic has changed our approach to finding love. People are more willing to try new things this year, according to the survey, with 48 perc… [+5301 chars]
Uranus, the ice giant, is certainly the strangest planet in the solar system, with more than a dozen rings that circle around it and as many as 27 moons encircle it! Its atmosphere, which is full of … [+2123 chars]
An astronaut in space has successfully piloted a rover back on Earth using a newly developed robotics technique, in what scientists said was an exciting first in overcoming a major hurdle to future m… [+5106 chars]
Imagine a home on Mars. Is it filled with bacteria? When we send humans to Mars , they'll need places to live. In a new study, a team of researchers from the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), in … [+4201 chars]
Nucleic acids analysis is mainly used in pathogen detection, genetic disease identification and early cancer diagnosis. For example, quantitative analysis of circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA), a free DNA… [+3017 chars]
From WIRED: Increasingly journals have published research thats free for anyone to read, and scientists have shared their data among each other. The open science movement has also entailed the rise … [+3580 chars]
The world's biggest particle accelerator, the 27-kilometer Large Hadron Collider (LHC), restarted on Friday after a break of more than three years for upgrading and maintenance work amid COVID-19 in … [+1572 chars]
Juno, NASA's most distant planetary orbiter, has captured a spectacular view of Jupiter during its 40th close pass by the gas giant on February 25, 2022. The JunoCam imager on the spacecraft capture… [+1431 chars]
Apr 22 2022Reviewed by Alex Smith For the first time, University of Würzburg physicists have been successful in propelling micrometer-sized drones using just light and exerting clear-cut control. Th… [+4190 chars]
In the work led by first-author Joan Garcia-Porta, a postdoctoral research associate in biology in Arts & Sciences and now a fellow in the Department of Genetics at the University of Barcelona, t… [+3064 chars]
In a recent study published in Science, four RIKEN organic chemists have come up with a way to selectively synthesize isomers of an important group of aromatic compounds. This promises to make it pos… [+3003 chars]
