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]
Artificial cells have been engineered to mimic the natural characteristics of biological cells in a new study from Imperial College London. Scientists from the Departments of Chemical Engineering an… [+3766 chars]
When our sun exhausts the hydrogen fuel in its core some 5 billion years from now, it will expand to become a red giant, engulfing the inner planets. The dynamics and possible outcomes of planetary e… [+2976 chars]
The origin of consciousness is one of the greatest mysteries of science. One proposed solution, first suggested by Nobel Laureate and Oxford mathematician Roger Penrose and anesthesiologist Stuart Ha… [+7351 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]
Credit: Ola Jakup Joensen, Niels Bohr Institute Benjamin Mottelson was a US-born physicist who specialized in theoretical work on the structure of the atomic nucleus. During the 1950s, in close coll… [+6020 chars]
<li>Twohig-Bennett, C. & Jones, A. The health benefits of the great outdoors: a systematic review and meta-analysis of greenspace exposure and health outcomes. Environ. Res.166, 628637 (2018). C… [+7472 chars]
ByESA/HubbleJune 13, 2022 The Hubble Space Telescope captured this glittering scene of globular cluster Terzan 9 in the constellation Sagittarius, towards the center of the Milky Way. Credit: ESA/Hu… [+3079 chars]
Later this month, skywatchers in Africa can watch a star blink out of sight thanks to a quirk of celestial arrangements. The European Space Agency (ESA) mission Gaia , which launched in 2013, has b… [+6393 chars]
Banner image: A penguin navigates sea ice in Antarctica. (Credit: John Weller) A new report from the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) reveals how climate change is significantly imp… [+3668 chars]
In 2018, a spacecraft called Hayabusa2 landed on a moving asteroid named Ryugu and collected particles from above and below its surface. One and a half years later, it returned to Earth with a sealed… [+2555 chars]
Since 2014, NASA’s Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN) mission has been orbiting Mars and gathering data on its upper atmosphere, ionosphere, and interactions with the Sun and solar wind. … [+4966 chars]
