ByEva Frederick, MIT Whitehead InstituteJune 11, 2022 Data for a new gene-function map are available for other scientists to use. Its a big resource in the way the human genome is a big resource, in… [+11672 chars]
ByBailey Sykes, Monash UniversityJune 11, 2022 An artists impression of two black holes about to collide and merge. Gravitational waves are ripples in the curvature of spacetime caused by accelerat… [+5932 chars]
Photo credit: Pogrebnoj-Alexandroff, CC BY-SA 3.0 , via Wikimedia Commons. Have you ever heard of the lateral line? No, its not a football play. Its a sense organ shared by most fish, from sharks to… [+7478 chars]
The Hubble Space Telescope has captured its largest near-infrared image to date, spanning an area of sky eight times greater than usual for the venerable old space telescope. Its an image and demons… [+3537 chars]
Enlarge/ The genetic code. Note that a lot of the amino acids (the outer layer, in grey) are encoded by several sets of three-base codes that share the first two letters. 2 with 2 posters participat… [+4251 chars]
Sometimes the discovery of new physics demands insane levels of energy. Big machines. Fancy equipment. Countless hours of sifting through reams of data. And then sometimes the right combination of m… [+3707 chars]
The connecting of two "time crystals" in a superfluid of helium-3 barely one-ten-thousandth of a degree above absolute zero could be a huge step toward a new kind of quantum computer. Time crystals … [+5050 chars]
A comet exploded in 2007 in space, causing the biggest detonation in astronomical history. The remains of this comet called 17P/Holmes have been floating through space. This year, Earthlings will be … [+2738 chars]
Imagine an asteroid is heading toward the Earth not long after life arose some four billion years ago. The asteroid strikes in a region near some water ponds that contain some microorganisms. The for… [+5089 chars]
An image of Perseverance's 'pet rock' stuck in the rover's front left wheel taken on May 26 using the rover's front-left Hazcam. (Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech) (opens in new tab)Roaming Mars is a … [+3165 chars]
James Webb Space Telescope mission observing universe. This image elements furnished by NASA ... [+] https://www.nasa.gov/johnson/HWHAP/the-james-webb-space-telescope getty On Tuesday, July 12, 202… [+5641 chars]
Antarctica is dominated by ice, mainly two massive glacial ice sheets called the East and West Antarctic Ice Sheets. Unsurprisingly, these ice sheets have been losing mass in recent years. Two glacie… [+2401 chars]
