Chinese scientists have created the most detailed map of the moon yet. It took them 10 years and involved hundreds of researchers. The new map will be a boon to lunar exploration and for anyone who j… [+2295 chars]
How molecules bind to a surface is of central importance in chemical reactions, making the possibility of studying binding configurations in isolated nanosystems of great interest. A Freiburg researc… [+2533 chars]
NASA is scheduled to release the first images taken by the James Webb Space Telescope on July 12, 2022. Theyll mark the beginning of the next era in astronomy as Webb the largest space telescope ever… [+6760 chars]
This week marks the tenth anniversary of the first big survey of microbial diversity in the human body, published in Nature by the Human Microbiome Project (HMP) Consortium, of which I was a member. … [+4874 chars]
“Why does it matter if Pluto is a planet or a dwarf planet? Because for me it just makes it more confusing in our solar system. I know that some things in space are planets and some are stars and som… [+1239 chars]
<ul><li>Astronomy researchers have identified what may be the first identification of a single black hole drifting across the galaxy.</li><li>Two teams of researchers studied studied six years of Hub… [+5307 chars]
Article body copy Hidden inside the Earthwithin the first several hundred kilometers below the crustthere is another ocean. It is, most likely, the largest ocean in the world. This water is not slos… [+4100 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]
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]
The scientists reported that thousands of strange viruses that were newly discovered hiding in the world’s oceans might exert a huge impact on the ecosystems, in part by “reprogramming” the hosts the… [+1569 chars]
This composite image shows the star-forming region 30 Doradus, also known as the Tarantula Nebula. ... [+] The background image, taken in the infrared, is itself a composite: it was captured by the H… [+5205 chars]
CVM cells (red) follow along a track made of TVM (green) cells. The TVM cells emit a signal, letting CVM cells know that they are going the right direction. The CVM cells are approaching a bend in th… [+6739 chars]
