The Boeing Starliner crew taxi returned to Earth from the International Space Station on Wednesday, completing a repeat test flight before NASA astronauts climb aboard. <ul><li>The return flight fro… [+2886 chars]
Every lungful of air we suck down is mostly made up of nitrogen, with a generous helping of oxygen, and a dash of carbon dioxide. But dusting this atmospheric soup is a whole encyclopedia of differ… [+4271 chars]
A healthy coral reef is a loud environment. Similar to a busy city, the infrastructure results in more organisms and activity, and also more background noise. Every time an invertebrate drags its har… [+2632 chars]
Factfile on Boeing Starliner spacecraft, launched for the International Space Station on Thursday.Boeing's Starliner capsule returned to Earth Wednesday in the final step of a key uncrewed test fligh… [+2779 chars]
A tiny gold-coated satellite lifted off from Earth on Wednesday with a rather large goal in mind for NASA: beam down data at the fastest rate ever achieved by space lasers. The space agencys TeraByt… [+2876 chars]
Birds and mammals independently evolved the highest metabolic rates among living animals. Their metabolism generates heat that enables active thermoregulation, shaping the ecological niches they can … [+3587 chars]
Billions of years ago, a river flowed across this scene in a Mars valley called Mawrth Vallis. A new study examines the tracks of Martian rivers to see what they can reveal about the history of the p… [+5999 chars]
NASA scientists have cut down a year of Perseverances audio recordings on the Martian surface to a five-hour playlist of the Red Planets best hits (you can listen to some here). The sounds are eerily… [+3025 chars]
Research from the lab of Matthew Lew at Washington University in St. Louis offers entirely new ways to see the very small. The research -; two papers by PhD students at the McKelvey School of Engine… [+2618 chars]
Scientists have described DNA as the blueprint of life. DNA nanotechnology has proved to be a powerful tool in many fields of science and technology, including nanoelectronics, molecular computing, b… [+7754 chars]
Research from the lab of Matthew Lew at Washington University in St. Louis offers entirely new ways to see the very small. The research -; two papers by PhD students at the McKelvey School of Engine… [+2618 chars]
In the last five years, the discovery and significant interest in twisted bilayer graphene gave rise to an entirely new subfield in advanced materials science and quantum physics: twistronics. In a n… [+6398 chars]