Scientists have momentarily restored a faint twinkle of life to dying cells in the human eye. In order to better understand the way nerve cells succumb to a lack of oxygen, a team of US researchers … [+4703 chars]
image: Fluorescent microscopy images of healthy (left) and Bloom mutant (right) testes. Cell nuclei are shown in blue, a key protein of division in reproductive cells (Sycp3) is shown in yellow. In h… [+6163 chars]
Did the world's largest prehistoric shark need an orthodontist, or did it just have a bad lunch? Researchers from North Carolina State University and the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences e… [+4811 chars]
A new method of detecting mega earthquakes, which picks up on the gravity waves they generate by using deep-learning models created at Los Alamos National Laboratory, can estimate earthquake magnitud… [+2561 chars]
If you thought the coldest place on Earth is Antarctica, well, you just might be wrong about that. One of the coldest places on Earth is actually in Menlo Park, California — or more specifically, 30 … [+2662 chars]
A speck of light that scientists once wrote off as a distant galaxy may actually be the brightest pulsar ever detected outside the Milky Way. Named PSR J0523−7125 and located about 160,000light-year… [+3408 chars]
A spectacularly preserved arrow from the Iron Age — complete with its iron arrowhead, sinew wrappings and aerodynamic feather fletching — is now in the hands of glacial archaeologists in Norway. It'… [+3274 chars]
A giant 1,600-foot wide asteroid, which is larger than the Empire State Building in New York City, will come dangerously close to Earth in 72 hours, NASA scientists have predicted. The space rock de… [+1325 chars]
A speck of light that scientists once wrote off as a distant galaxy may actually be the brightest pulsar ever detected outside the Milky Way. Named PSR J0523−7125 and located about 160,000light-year… [+3408 chars]
They also found an impaled turtle and fish full of debris. Die Hard Scientists say theyve figured out what happened the day an apocalyptic asteroid crashed into Earth and annihilated the dinosaurs.… [+1758 chars]
NASA has made a fascinating discovery. It has found fragments of the same asteroid which struck the Earth 66 million years ago to destroy dinosaurs and start a mini ice age. The finding is not only s… [+2243 chars]
NASA's new space telescope is in the home stretch of testing, with science observations expected to begin in July, astronomers said Monday. The James Webb Space Telescope beamed back the latest test … [+1815 chars]
