May 3 2022Reviewed by Alex Smith According to a new study, there was a period of accelerated global climate change in an ice-capped world about 304 million years ago, similar to the present. In just… [+4638 chars]
TUCSON, Arizona — It is well established that older adults are more susceptible to infection and their immune systems less capable of generating a strong immune response. Now, a new University of Ari… [+8386 chars]
SpaceX's Crew-3 astronaut mission will get to spend a few extra hours aboard the International Space Station (ISS), if all goes according to plan. Crew-3's Dragon capsule had been scheduled to dep… [+2382 chars]
In contrast to previous assumptions, the defense hormones salicylic acid and jasmonic acid do not always suppress each other in regulating plant chemical defenses against pests and pathogens. In tree… [+6226 chars]
May 3 2022Reviewed by Alex Smith According to a new study, there was a period of accelerated global climate change in an ice-capped world about 304 million years ago, similar to the present. In just… [+4638 chars]
A new study from the University of Bristol (UB) reveals that the rapid diversification of squamates took place during the Jurassic era, which is much earlier than expected. Squamata is the largest or… [+2710 chars]
Mars is full of volcanoes, such as these ones in the Tharsis region: Ceraunius Tholus and Uranius ... [+] Tholus. This image came from data taken during separate orbits of the European Space Agency's… [+2281 chars]
Astronomers are awaiting the summer day when the four instruments of the James Webb Space Telescope will take their first science data a moment decades in the making. On Thursday, NASA and ESA ann… [+4069 chars]
Enlarge/ NASA Administrator Bill Nelson is seen in firing room four during the launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the company's Crew Dragon spacecraft on the Crew-4 mission in April. 181 wi… [+4620 chars]
New research published today in eLife by researchers from the Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont (ICP) and the University of Bristol (UB) moves back the moment of the radiation of squa… [+3378 chars]
Scientists have identified some remains, or fossils, of huge ancient reptiles found on mountain tops in Switzerland years ago. The researchers finding is a little surprising. The fossils are from ich… [+2963 chars]
Hot on the heels of the year's first solar eclipse — a partial eclipse on April 30 — a total lunar eclipse is on the horizon. Between the late evening of May 15 and the early morning of May 16, depe… [+2973 chars]
