Sperm meets egg, setting off a cascade of events leading to the creation of an embryo. But how do developing cellswhich all contain the same genetic informationdecide what to be when they grow up? Ho… [+4245 chars]
A total lunar eclipse is on the horizon. The night of May 15, starting at around 10:27 p.m., the full eclipse will take place just after midnight. Gary Boyle, The Backyard Astronomer, said the luna… [+821 chars]
In the near future, NASA, the European Space Agency (ESA), China, and Roscosmos all mount crewed missions to the Moon. This will constitute the first time astronauts have walked on the lunar surface … [+8930 chars]
The European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti has become the first-ever TikToker to post a video from the International Space Station. Cristoforetti is part of SpaceX’s Crew-4 mis… [+1405 chars]
Lewis Pinault is a partner at Airbus Ventures , where he invests and serves as board director for space technology related startups across the globe. A NASA-trained meteoriticist, he is also a resea… [+14111 chars]
A Hubble image taken on Dec. 5, 2005 of the Main Belt asteroid 2001 SE101 passing in front of the Crab Nebula. (Image credit: © NASA/ESA HST, Image processing: Melina Thévenot) Astronomers have re… [+4618 chars]
Sunspots aren't the only speckles decorating the dynamic face of our Sun. Solar physicists have made a close study of tiny, fleeting speckles of brightness that emerge and fade in less than a minute … [+3978 chars]
Summary: When learning how to coordinate a new movement, the nervous system first explores and evaluates many different coordinated patterns. With experience, the nervous system then adapts specific … [+6293 chars]
ByColumbia UniversityMay 10, 2022 In this simulation of a supermassive black hole merger, the blue-shifted black hole closest to the viewer amplifies the red-shifted black hole in the back through g… [+8862 chars]
Two visits from NASA's most venerable space telescope offers a stunning galactic portrait indeed. A newly released image from the Hubble Space Telescope shows the mesmerizing spiral of a galaxy ca… [+2134 chars]
The Antarctic ice is finding its secrets harder and harder to keep. Deep below the ice of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet, the largest ice sheet in the world, scientists have confirmed the existence of… [+3789 chars]
Although the COVID-19 pandemic caused many disruptions in the educational system, it also led to some surprising benefits. In Physics of Fluids, scientists from the University of Illinois at Urbana-… [+3348 chars]
