A new 'super Earth' that is four times bigger than our own planet has been spotted orbiting a star just 36.5 light-years away. The exoplanet, which has been named Ross 508b, was discovered in the so… [+5433 chars]
All was amiss with the Sun! In the early 2000s, a new set of data brought down the chemical abundances at the surface of the Sun, contradicting the values predicted by the standard models used by ast… [+4989 chars]
Scientists at the Foundation for Applied Molecular Evolution announced today that ribonucleic acid (RNA), an analog of DNA that was likely the first genetic material for life, spontaneously forms on … [+4910 chars]
The oldest shoe in Norway — a 3,000-year-old bootie from the Bronze Age — is just one of thousands of ancient artifacts that were recovered from the country's melting mountain ice patches in the past… [+4805 chars]
Ka mua, ka muri. We walk backward into the future, with our eyes on the past. This whakatauk (proverb) represents a New Zealand Mori perspective that has much in common with the way Earth scientists … [+15546 chars]
Researchers using an innovative astrodynamics algorithm have uncovered over 100 asteroids that had gone undetected in archived images of the sky. Asteroids are rocky objects left over from the fo… [+2867 chars]
Most mammals, including humans, are diploid. That is, nuclear DNA (nrDNA) exists as pairs of chromosomes (humans have 23 pairs of chromosomes, while mice have 20). This pair of chromosomes are homolo… [+6057 chars]
Scientists have revealed two enzymes that regulate protein degradation of proteins in the cell membrane of plants, and established the roles they play in plant growth and development. Ubiquitin is a… [+3145 chars]
Rice University engineers who mimic atom-scale processes to make them big enough to see have modeled how shear influences grain boundaries in polycrystalline materials. That the boundaries can chang… [+4091 chars]
Our human brains can seem like a crowning achievement of evolution, but the roots of that achievement run deep: The modern brain arose from hundreds of millions of years of incremental advances in co… [+3671 chars]
In April, a team of planetary scientists spread across the U.S. authored a report as part of the Planetary Science Decadal Survey, placing scientific pressure on NASA to build and loft a probe capabl… [+5100 chars]
Evaluation of computational RNA counting strategies using molecular spikes. ad, Counting difference between number of unique spike identifiers and quantified 10x Genomics UMIs at varying mean express… [+4846 chars]
