In almost every human cell, 2 meters of DNA has to fit within a nucleus that is just 8 millionths of a meter wide. Like wool around a spool, the extreme space challenge requires DNA to wrap around st… [+4674 chars]
Curiosity has improved space research since Sputnik 1 was inaugurated 65 years back. However, we’re only starting to scratch the exterior of what is known regarding different planetary cores in the s… [+1176 chars]
For someone whos spent most her life gazing up at the stars, Julie Claveau is very down to earth. Take a quick orbit around the UVic Science grads social media universe and youll discover Claveau is … [+7639 chars]
An arrow at the bottom of the image indicates the age of the system increasing toward the right of the image from 1-10 Million years, to 10-100 Million years, to greater than 100 Million years. In th… [+4504 chars]
Using the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST) in China, astronomers discovered the second example of a highly active, repeating Fast Radio Burst (FRB). The object first disco… [+4096 chars]
About 1.2 billion years ago a blue-green bacterium was engulfed by a more complex cell, transforming our planet and allowing a tremendous diversity of plant life to emerge and continue to evolve. Th… [+3696 chars]
PhysNASA simulation suggests some volcanoes might warm climate, destroy ozone layerTectonic map of the Earth. Hasterok et al./Earth-Sci.Rev. Based on a series of models considering how the continen… [+3969 chars]
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope is gearing up to start operations this summer, and one of its many assignments will be to search for primeval black holes in the early universe. A supermassive bla… [+3185 chars]
Curiosity has improved space research since Sputnik 1 was inaugurated 65 years back. However, we’re only starting to scratch the exterior of what is known regarding different planetary cores in the s… [+1176 chars]
NASA is evaluating a first human stay on the surface of Mars that would last 30 Earth days or so. Scientists and engineers are debating how to best use that month on the Red Planet. Should the Mars… [+7126 chars]
In the lead-up to the release of Webb's first full-color images and spectroscopic data on July 12, the Webb team is now in the last phase of commissioning the science instruments. The first two instr… [+3910 chars]
Paleontologists have set a new record for the oldest belly button ever found in reptiles and mammals, after scientists from The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) and from around the world used a… [+2934 chars]
