From a zoomed out, distant view, star-forming cloud L483 appears normal. But when a Northwestern University-led team of astrophysicists zoomed in closer and closer, things became weirder and weirder.… [+5021 chars]
To identify the genes, the researchers used data from 723,266 persons from 17 studies who had clinically diagnosed or self-reported hearing impairment and examined genetic tests previously conducted … [+4470 chars]
By analyzing the data from ESA's XMM-Newton satellite, astronomers from the Astronomical Observatory of the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland, and elsewhere, have investigated X-ray intraday … [+3884 chars]
It’s been a long time coming, but this June stargazers are finally getting the chance to see five planets align in the night skies. For the rest of the monthlook east towards the pre-dawn sky with t… [+1382 chars]
One of the James Webb Space Telescope’s primary mirror segments was struck by a micrometeoroid and while it has been damaged, NASA says it’s not cause for alarm and the telescope is still on schedule… [+3349 chars]
Every day, chemical factories produce a wide range of products that will be extremely difficult to do without in a modern society; everything from medicines like insulin and antibiotics to fertilizer… [+3434 chars]
Animals Six-week-old male BKS.Cg-Dock7m+/+Leprdb/J (db/db) mice were purchased from the Oriental Yeast Co. (Tokyo, Japan) and allowed free access to food and water. The room temperature was maintain… [+9762 chars]
The outer skin of our planetthe critical zonestretches from treetops to the lower limits of groundwater. In this layer, interactions between rock, soil, water, air, and living organisms shape Earth's… [+2277 chars]
A University of Minnesota Twin Cities-led research team has solved a longstanding mystery surrounding strontium titanate, an unusual metal oxide that can be an insulator, a semiconductor, or a metal.… [+4320 chars]
NASA's Voyager 1 team is trying to work out why the spacecraft appears to be confused about its location in space, but the mission's distance from Earth makes solving the issue challenging. The Voya… [+2502 chars]
Bryné Hadnott, MSc: To tears and applause, Dr Jamila Pegues successfully defended her thesis on protoplanetary disks to a virtually crowded Zoom room of dozens of people, becoming the first Black wom… [+6098 chars]
Paired jets of matter streaming away from supermassive black holes at the center of galaxies usually extend away in opposite directions along the black holes axis of spin as in the two bottom galaxy … [+4967 chars]
