Serotonin (5-HT) is one of the main neurotransmitters in the human central nervous system and peripheral nervous system. It helps regulate appetite, memory, cognition and mood through serotonin recep… [+3297 chars]
Enlarge/ Artist's conception of a magnetar. 25 with 21 posters participating If you think black holes are the scariest things in the Universe, I have something to share with you. There are balls o… [+3925 chars]
An artist's impression of Comet Interceptor, which is due to launch in 2028 and will wait for its target for up to six years.Credit: Geraint Jones, UCL Mullard Space Science Laboratory The European … [+5455 chars]
Imagine a road with two lanes in each direction. One lane is for slow cars, and the other is for fast ones. For electrons moving along a quantum wire, researchers in Cambridge and Frankfurt have disc… [+4965 chars]
A new breakthrough has allowed physicists to create a beam of atoms that behaves the same way as a laser, and that can theoretically stay on "forever". This might finally mean the technology is on i… [+4269 chars]
Imagine a road with two lanes in each direction. One lane is for slow cars, and the other is for fast ones. For electrons moving along a quantum wire, researchers in Cambridge and Frankfurt have disc… [+4965 chars]
Researchers from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and the University of California, Berkeley, have developed a new photonic device that could get scientists closer to the "holy grail" of finding th… [+3698 chars]
A strange gap between theoretical predictions and experimental results in a major neutrino research project could be a sign of the elusive 'sterile' neutrino a particle so quiet, it can only be detec… [+3614 chars]
SpaceX launched one of its Falcon 9 rockets for the 13th time today (June 17), setting a new reuse record. The two-stage Falcon 9 lifted off from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida today at 12:0… [+2781 chars]
ByBill Steigerwald, NASA Goddard Space Flight CenterJune 17, 2022 Asteroid Bennus remarkable terrain. Credit: NASAs Goddard Space Flight Center Asteroid Bennus boulder-covered surface gives it prot… [+6979 chars]
After more than 44 years of travelling farther from Earth than any man-made objects have before, the Voyager spacecraft are entering their very final phase. Both of the Voyagers were launched from C… [+7212 chars]
ByMarcia Rieke, University of ArizonaJune 17, 2022 The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is the next of NASAs Great Observatories; following in the line of the Hubble Space Telescope, the Compton Ga… [+8268 chars]
