When a cell divides normally, it makes a copy of every chromosome and then shares them equally between the two new cells. This function is carried out by a complex machine in the cell called the mito… [+2128 chars]
Almost like ASMR! Sleep Tight It looks pretty hard to wash your face when the cloth and water youre using keep floating away. But you can still watch astronaut Matthias Maurer, of the European Spac… [+1276 chars]
Skip to content The nation is stepping up its planetary defense program. The China National Space Administration (CNSA) will attempt to redirect the orbit of an asteroid by slamming a spacecraft in… [+3622 chars]
Newswise — WOODS HOLE, Mass. – Squid, octopus, and cuttlefish – even to scientists who study them – are wonderfully weird creatures. Known as the soft-bodied or coleoid cephalopods, they have the lar… [+9669 chars]
A photo taken by NASA of the Moon's surface has been shared thousands of times in social media posts alongside a claim that the photo proves that the planetary mass was previously split in two. But t… [+4433 chars]
NASA explains that before the ISS, the first U.S. space station, Skylab, demonstrated that humans could live in space for up to a year. Skylab became a space outpost from 1973 to 1974. During those y… [+1482 chars]
When a star explodes and dies in a supernova, it takes on a new life of sorts. Pulsars are the extremely rapidly rotating objects left over after massive stars have exhausted their fuel supply. They… [+5802 chars]
One of the most popular applications of microfluidics involves developing a ‘lab-on-a-chip’ device to diagnose diseases from a very small biological sample. There already exist some portable devices … [+2845 chars]
Ahead of the Artemis missions that will send humans back to the moon, scientists at NASAs Goddard Space Flight Center received samples of the lunar surface that were preserved in a freezer at the age… [+3558 chars]
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When the Apollo 15 and 17 missions returned to Earth with pieces of the Moon in 1971 and 1972, some of the samples were deliberately set aside for the future. Flash forward half a century and these … [+4189 chars]
A photo taken by NASA of the Moon's surface has been shared thousands of times in social media posts alongside a claim that the photo proves that the planetary mass was previously split in two. But t… [+4433 chars]
