NASA’s InSight lander arrived on the surface of Mars in late 2018, designed to explore the interior of the red planet for the first time. While some aspects of the mission have not gone to plan, the … [+2426 chars]
Many age-related diseases share a common feature: the mitochondria of cells begin to malfunction. While the cause is not known, Buck Institute scientists have discovered a new mechanism of how mitoch… [+4952 chars]
A 30 gramme fragment of rock was discovered near the Egyptian-Libyan border in 1996. Hypatia Stone, after the Egyptian mathematician killed by religious extremists, was an uncommon name for him. It w… [+2520 chars]
When animals experience a large injury, such as the loss of a limb, the body immediately begins a wound healing response that includes sealing the wound site and repairing local damage. In many anima… [+6532 chars]
Inside All About Space issue 130, on sale now, explore the chaos theory and how it influences the world around us and also applies to the wider universe. Subscribe to All About Space (Image credit… [+5093 chars]
ByNASAMay 19, 2022 An afternoon on Mars: NASAs Perseverance Mars rover used its Right Navigation Camera (Navcam) to acquire this image after driving on sol 428. The view is behind the rover towards … [+3011 chars]
Under the arch of the setting Milky Way. I had shot at this location before but felt I could do better, so I returned on an unexpected trip to give it another go. I was pleasantly surprised to find t… [+389 chars]
Internationally comparable data on biodiversity is needed to protect threatened ecosystems, restore destroyed habitats and counteract the negative effects of global biodiversity loss. Current biodive… [+3455 chars]
Newswise — DURHAM, N.C. -- A new examination of the way different tissues read information from genes has discovered that the brain and testes appear to be extraordinarily open to the use of many dif… [+4905 chars]
The NASA Hubble Space Telescope has spent 3 decades in space acting as the Earths watchdog and explorer of the universe. In its time spent observing distant galaxies and stars, it has also collected … [+3800 chars]
Scientists found signs of life in samples dating back 830 million years. And it’s possible some of them are even still alive. They extracted samples from a mile-deep core sample in Western Australia,… [+2192 chars]
New research led by the University of Cambridge is the first to take a detailed image of an unusual pocket of rock at the boundary layer with Earth's core, some three thousand kilometres beneath the … [+4715 chars]
