This story is part of Welcome to Mars, our series exploring the red planet. I'd like to share my excitement about a rock. It's kind of roundish. It's sitting on -- or perhaps attached to or eroded … [+2102 chars]
Its hard to find a place on Earth untouched by palladium. The silvery-white metal is a key part of catalytic converters in the worlds 1.4 billion cars, which spew specks of palladium into the atmosph… [+16958 chars]
Integration of environmental signals on the expression of the photoprotection-related genes. (A) Schematic summary of changing light quality and quantity throughout the day. Blue light reaches deeper… [+6477 chars]
ByCalla Cofield, Jet Propulsion LaboratoryJune 14, 2022 Artists concept of NuSTAR on orbit. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech This small but powerful space telescope has spent a decade of observing some of … [+8826 chars]
NASA's Lucy mission team is continuing efforts to correct the incomplete deployment of one of the spacecraft's solar arrays as it continues to Jupiter's Trojan asteroids. The Lucy mission , which l… [+2173 chars]
National University of Singapore researchers have predicted that Landau levels belonging to different valleys in a two-dimensional (2D) valleytronic material, monolayer tungsten diselenide (WSe2), ca… [+3390 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]
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The face of a petite and dark-haired woman has been reconstructed by the researchers. What is special about this woman is that she was one of the richest residents of Bronze-Age Bohemia as she was bu… [+1539 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]
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]
