George Long, a graduate student of bioinformatics at McMaster, is the lead author of a study that identified and reconstructed the first ancient genome of E. coli using fragments extracted from the g… [+4014 chars]
Zoom/ Astronomers at MIT and elsewhere have mapped the composition of asteroid Psyche, revealing a surface of metal, sand and rock. NASA Astronomers have produced the most detailed map yet of the s… [+4481 chars]
Scientists from the University of Tsukuba demonstrated how ultrafast spectroscopy can be used to improve the temporal resolution of quantum sensors. By measuring the orientation of coherent spins ins… [+3174 chars]
Climate change is on track to interfere with tomato productionand could be especially bad news for fans of ketchup, pizza sauce and other processed tomato products. According to a study published in… [+4240 chars]
How Did The First Galaxies Form? The universe is filled with over a hundred billion individual galaxies. Most of the stars and planets in the universe are contained within galaxies. They come in a … [+4804 chars]
One look at this stunning new image and you're likely to repeat the immortal words of "2001: A Space Odyssey's" astronaut Dave Bowman as he enters the mysterious black monolith… "My god, it's full of… [+2172 chars]
An international collaboration of researchers has successfully reconstructed the genome of an E.coli from the remains of an Italian noble, mummified in the 16th century, a press release said. Esche… [+2912 chars]
<li>Gray, R. D., Drummond, A. J. & Greenhill, S. J. Language phylogenies reveal expansion pulses and pauses in Pacific Settlement. Science323, 479483, https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1166858 (200… [+24393 chars]
The European Space Agency (ESA) is getting ready to unveil its medium-lift Vega-C rocket, a worthy successor to the small launcher Vega, which has been in operation for 10 years. Vega-C is undergoing… [+2506 chars]
A tiny satellite built in Nova Scotia is ready to blast off into outer space. LORIS, which stands for low-orbit reconnaissance imagery satellite, is a nanosatellite, designed and built by students a… [+4079 chars]
A team of researchers affiliated with several institutions in the U.S. and Brazil has found evidence that pumpkin toadlets (Brachycephalus) have poor jumping skills because their inner ear canals are… [+2700 chars]
