Nobel laureate Otto Hahn is credited with the discovery of nuclear fission. Fission is one of the most important discoveries of the 20th century, yet Hahn considered something else to be his best s… [+7481 chars]
On 13 June, the European Space Agency will release the Gaia mission's third full data set which contains new and improved details for almost two billion objects in our home galaxy - the Milky Way. A … [+1732 chars]
ByESA/HubbleJune 6, 2022 Hubble Space Telescope of globular cluster Ruprecht 106. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, A. Dotter Like a gigantic version of Sherlock Holmess magnifying glass, the NASA Es… [+3538 chars]
We didn't see any indication of their drinking coming back to baseline, so we think that maybe this epigenetic editing will produce a long-lasting effect, Pandey says. I think a lot more work needs t… [+4309 chars]
Image source: "Secrets of the Cell," via Discovery Institute. Respect for bacteria is growing. Biochemist Michael Behes latest video in the Secrets of the Cell series shows how magnetotactic bacteri… [+6181 chars]
Intricate clock designs never cease to amaze us with their unimaginable accurate movement and millimeter precision in component design. Combine that with a cool idea or philosophy binding generations… [+1658 chars]
X-rays make it possible to explore inside human bodies or peer inside objects. The technology used to illuminate the detail in microscopically small structures is the same as that used in familiar si… [+3777 chars]
Mark your calendars, folks: The James Webb Space Telescopes first scientific image drop date is July 12, 2022. Thats 36 days away. A Tuesday, dont you know. Cancel your plans. Ill be here, waiting, h… [+6224 chars]
A new article in Science of The Total Environment led by Flinders University describes how transferring poor sediments to more healthy nearby areas of the Ramsar-listed Coorong shallow lagoon, and re… [+3389 chars]
Asteroid collisions in the early solar system exposed their iron cores to space, allowing them to cool rapidly. (Image credit: NASA/JPL–Caltech) A great demolition derby, with a chaotic mess of aste… [+4971 chars]
A large international study found that on average 31.4% of adolescents reported feeling unsafe at school in 13 European and Asian countries. The result revealed inequality in securing a safe educatio… [+3646 chars]
All cosmic objects are embedded in magnetic fields. However, these fields are weak, but they are dynamically significant because they have profound effects on the dynamics of the universe. The origi… [+3462 chars]
