In early June, the main body of NASA’s upcoming Europa Clipper spacecraft completed construction and was shipped to NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California soon after. The arri… [+6778 chars]
Sather Gate, the iconic entrance gate to the campus of UC Berkeley in downtown Berkeley, Calif. Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images A UC Berkeley research team led by graduate student Casey Lam and … [+2165 chars]
By Ashleigh Swan & Tom GerkenBBC Click Samantha Cristoforetti holds the record for longest uninterrupted spaceflight by a European astronaut - but you may know her for another bit of history. … [+4700 chars]
By Ashleigh Swan & Tom GerkenBBC Click Samantha Cristoforetti holds the record for longest uninterrupted spaceflight by a European astronaut - but you may know her for another bit of history. … [+4700 chars]
Sather Gate, the iconic entrance gate to the campus of UC Berkeley in downtown Berkeley, Calif. Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images A UC Berkeley research team led by graduate student Casey Lam and … [+2165 chars]
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]
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]
<ul><li>Remains of Europe's largest-ever land-based dinosaur were discovered in England, scientists say. </li><li>The prehistoric bones belonged to a two-legged, crocodile-faced dinosaur. </li><li>… [+2908 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]
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]
In the summer of 2020, the world was enthralled with the Comet Neowise, which only makes an appearance every 6,800 years. Brennan Gilmore was so enthralled that it kicked off a passion for astrophoto… [+2018 chars]
