Some galaxies, like the Milky Way, have maintained regular star formation for billions of years. Others, like large elliptical galaxies, are “red and dead.” Star formation in those galaxies shut off … [+2430 chars]
Researchers from the Institute of Laser Physics at Universität Hamburg have succeeded for the first time in realizing a time crystal that spontaneously breaks continuous time translation symmetry. Th… [+2263 chars]
image: Schematic illustration of the moiré pattern evolution under the influences of external forces and torques for a circularly shaped colloidal cluster interacting with a periodically structured s… [+8396 chars]
Saturns rings cast shadows on the planets cloud tops, providing a perfect backdrop for the ... [+] brilliant sphere of Saturns moon Enceladus. The image was taken in visible light with the Cassini sp… [+6357 chars]
Astra aims to notch its second consecutive satellite-deploying success this weekend. The California-based startup is targeting no earlier than Sunday (June 12) for the launch of two tiny cubesats … [+2395 chars]
Millions of years ago, a bipedal dinosaur with knives for fingers stalked the shores of the Asian continent. But those Edward Scissorhandslike weapons were used for slashing vegetation rather than … [+4652 chars]
A unique telescope that focuses light with a slowly spinning bowl of liquid mercury instead of a solid mirror has opened its eye to the skies above India. Such telescopes have been built before, but … [+5410 chars]
Telomere-to-telomere replication timing profiles In our prior analysis25, we generated replication timing profiles for five cell linesthe apparently healthy lymphoblastoid cell line GM12878, the emb… [+16220 chars]
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The oldest 'belly button' known to science has been found on an exquisitely preserved horned dinosaur fossil from China. The slit-like scar comes not from an umbilical cord, as it does in mammals, b… [+3438 chars]
After a decade of observing some of the hottest, densest, and most energetic regions in our universe, this small but powerful space telescope still has more to see. NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Tele… [+5391 chars]
The delay in the planned launch of NASA's Psyche mission to visit what is thought to be the exposed core of a protoplanet is upsetting plans for two small tag-along satellites to visit other asteroid… [+2058 chars]
