Newswise — BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- The structure of how DNA is stored in archaea makes a significant difference to how quickly it evolves, according to a new study by Indiana University researchers. Th… [+2418 chars]
Genetic variants that can act as switches directing structural changes in the RNA molecules that code for proteins in plants have been experimentally validated in plants for the first time. The chang… [+6853 chars]
E. coli cells used in the long-term evolution experiment (LTEE) on an agar plate.Credit: Jeffrey Barrick On 24 February 1988, evolutionary biologist Richard Lenski filled 12 flasks with sugary growt… [+8431 chars]
An international team of astronomers has inspected an unusual superluminous supernova known as SN 2020wnt. Results of the study suggest that this supernova is slowly evolving and carbon-rich. The fin… [+3556 chars]
Nanostructured materials are at the forefront of materials science due to their unique physical features. To characterize their microscopic characteristics, a variety of approaches can be used, each … [+2308 chars]
Newswise — Viewed from space, Earth may have looked like a giant snowball during the global ice ages of the Cryogenian period. In the geosciences, this hypothesis that the oceans were completely froz… [+4820 chars]
Mars is hardly a verdant world today, yet evidence abounds that liquid water once flowed over the Red Planet. Now, the latest rover to arrive on Marss surfaceZhurong, part of Chinas Tianwen-1 mission… [+4387 chars]
ARCADIA, Calif. A SpaceX cargo Dragon mission to the International Space Station will now launch no earlier than July 11, a delay of more than a month after engineers identified the source of elevate… [+1224 chars]
The crew for the first mission in the privately funded Polaris program is scaling new heights to prepare for their record-breaking SpaceX flight later this year. A mission profile, launch schedule e… [+4487 chars]
In this series of posts, we sit down with a few of the keynote speakers of the 240th AAS meeting to learn more about them and their research. You can see a full schedule of their talks here, and read… [+2870 chars]
The Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work. The big idea A newly discovered fast radio burst has some unique properties that are simultaneously giving astronomers important … [+4906 chars]
Slow going Artists impression of the signal from PSR J09014046 is shown in magenta. Shown in blue are signals from other, faster pulsars. (Courtesy: Danielle Futselaar/artsource.nl)" /> Slow goin… [+4913 chars]
