Kepler-452b (sometimes nicknamed Earth 2.0 or Earth's Cousin) is an exoplanet orbiting the Sun-like ... [+] star Kepler-452 about 1, 400 light-years (430 pc) from Earth in the constellation Cygnus. I… [+6833 chars]
By analyzing data from ESA's XMM-Newton spacecraft and NASA's TESS telescope, German astronomers have inspected a highly variable polar known as V496 UMa. Results of the study, published May 20 on ar… [+3449 chars]
A UNIGE team has shown that the cells that make up our tissues increase in volume under the constraint of curvature. A key discovery for in vitro organ culture.How do our cells organize themselves to… [+6645 chars]
Recently, we paid attention to the newly launched AGELOCER “The Volcano Series ” project on the kickstarter crowdfunding platform, whose design concept comes from the geological movement of volcanic … [+5477 chars]
This guest post was written by Danny Baker, an undergraduate student at the University of Connecticut, for an assignment in the Fall 2021 Foundations of Modern Astrophysics class taught by Professor … [+8497 chars]
While the idea of living on Mars may sound like the plot of the latest science fiction blockbuster, firms including NASA and SpaceX are seriously considering it as a possibility. Several challenges… [+13452 chars]
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The Western Pacific Subtropical High (WPSH) is an anticyclonic atmospheric system hovering over the middle and lower troposphere of the northwestern Pacific, dominating summer climate extremes in the… [+2586 chars]
The Klauea volcano in Hawaii is said to be the world's most active volcano, and yet we still don't really know how it was born. New research suggests the original womb of magma lies more than 90 kil… [+3308 chars]
The James Webb telescope explores deep space on alien planets background. JWST launch art. Elements ... [+] of this image furnished by NASA. getty According to a news release by NASA, with its mirr… [+4577 chars]
There's a revolution underway in astronomy. In fact, you might say there are several. In the past 10 years, exoplanet studies have advanced considerably, gravitational wave astronomy has emerged as a… [+7743 chars]
While studying the reaction of male mice to pregnant and lactating female mice, researchers made a related and somewhat odd discovery: male mice are terrified of the smell of bananas. A team from Mc… [+3481 chars]
