A team of international researchers has discovered a way to produce higher quality wheat. The scientists from the University of Adelaide and the UK's John Innes Centre have identified a genetic drive… [+2383 chars]
Orbex's Prime rocket reaching technical readiness represents a significant achievement that brings together key elements of the ground infrastructure and prototype launch vehicle for the first time a… [+4414 chars]
Genes contain all the instructions an organism needs to live, grow, and reproduce. But identifying a gene and learning what it does are two different things. Scientists don’t know what kinds of instr… [+4845 chars]
Historic forest on Telegrafenberg in Potsdam as part of a heritage site and scientific campus. The study shows that large-scale afforestation has implications beyond country borders and even continen… [+4184 chars]
A new study performed at the University of Eastern Finland has shown that variations caused in both the size and distribution of the pine beauty moth population are connected to higher temperatures. … [+2581 chars]
Rocket Lab, a New Zealand space launch company, has become the first to capture a rocket stage in the air with the help of a helicopter. The mission, called “There And Back Again”, was considered par… [+2800 chars]
Are we about to see the unseeable for a second time? Decades of calculations and data show there is a supermassive black hole, about 4 million times more massive than our sun, lurking at the heart of… [+3636 chars]
The go-to materials for building home furniture, décor and floors are composite wood products that come in large sheets. But the glues and resins holding together particleboard, fiberboard and plywoo… [+2701 chars]
In our sun's neighborhood of the Milky Way Galaxy is a relatively bright star, and in it, astronomers have been able to identify the widest range of elements in a star beyond our solar system yet. T… [+5143 chars]
An image taken by NASA’s Mars Curiosity Rover on May 7, 2022 showed “a portal and a nearby wall that appears artificial.” contextWhile the image in question was an original image captured by a camer… [+3272 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 … [+9459 chars]
After staying relatively inactive since 2014, the Hunga TongaHunga Haapai volcano erupted on Jan. 15, 2022. It began erupting in late December 2021 and then violently exploded in mid-January 2022. Th… [+2930 chars]