JAXA, the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency, is carving out a niche for itself in sample-return missions. Their Hayabusa mission was the first mission to sample an asteroid when it brought dust f… [+5977 chars]
Millions of years ago, giant dwarf crocodiles roamed a part of Africa with a taste for our human ancestors. In a new study, researchers led by the University of Iowa announced the discovery of two n… [+3607 chars]
The Russian scientific community is speaking out unanimously against the unauthorized activation of the German eROSITA telescope aboard the Russian Spektr-RG space observatory, as suggested by Roscos… [+5996 chars]
Photo: Basalt lava glass, by James St. John, via Flickr (cropped). Phys.org has an article by the Foundation for Applied Molecular Evolution, Scientists announce a breakthrough in determining life’s… [+5324 chars]
Swirling disks of gas and dust, the stuff that could one day form planets, surround young stars. Through NASA's Disk Detective program, citizen scientistsvolunteers from the publiccollaborate with pr… [+4233 chars]
A particularly long eruption of an M-class solar flare was observed by the Solar Dynamics Observatory by NASA yesterday, June 14. Immediately after the flare went off, the electromagnetic energy was … [+2573 chars]
Venus is presently noticeable in the morning sky before daylight and can be found deep in the eastern sky. The planet Uranus is not noticeable to the unaided eye but can be sighted with binoculars or… [+1411 chars]
It's a rare phenomenon that won't happen again for nearly two decades. Five planets will be visible all at once this month, and they'll also appear in order. Those who want to take in the show will… [+1961 chars]
Since the dawn of genetics in the early 20th century, biologists have debated whether evolution is driven more by chance mutations or by the original diversity in the gene pool. Having a lot of gen… [+3766 chars]
A team of researchers led by Dr. Sebastian Hess from the University of Cologne's Institute of Zoology has studied the expression of carbohydrate-active enzymes in the unicellular organism Orciraptor … [+3303 chars]
When two domes were last placed atop of York University’s astrological observatory, the campus was a few scattered buildings in the middle of a huge swath of undeveloped land. It was the summer of 1… [+6726 chars]
Qubits are a basic building block for quantum computers, but they're also notoriously fragiletricky to observe without erasing their information in the process. Now, new research from the University … [+5874 chars]
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