One of the James Webb Space Telescope's four primary scientific instruments, known as the Near-Infrared Imager and Slitless Spectrograph instrument (NIRISS) has concluded its post-launch preparations… [+2237 chars]
Scientists warn an imminent mass annihilation of marine species similar to one 250 million years ago that wiped out most lives in oceans Justin Penn and Curtis Deutsch, scientists from Stanford Unive… [+6976 chars]
There are just eight planets in our Solar System (sorry Pluto), so the neighborhood can feel pretty empty. But there are over 200 moons orbiting objects in the solar system, including planets and lar… [+495 chars]
An international team of astronomers has assembled the power of 64 radio televisions for the first time to obtain weak hydrogen gas signatures on a biologically neutral scale. This achievement was a… [+3070 chars]
What is the common thread among mRNA vaccines, genomic drugs, NASA’s mission to the moon and the harnessing of nuclear power? They all have been products of science convergence, where knowledge from … [+3854 chars]
Scientists from the Ural Federal University and the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences have created new fluorescent chemical compounds (fluorophores) for photodynamic therapy of cancerous… [+3717 chars]
NASA will launch a rocket from the remote wilderness of northern Australia on Sunday evening, the first commercial space launch in Australia and the agency’s first from a commercial spaceport. The s… [+2027 chars]
<ul><li>The Mars Express spacecraft, which launched in 2003, will receive a software update to improve the data it sends back to Earth.</li><li>Currently, the craft runs on an operating system based … [+1799 chars]
We simulate the gaseous envelope using a spherically symmetric model that solves the structure equations of a planets interior assuming hydrostatic equilibrium63,64,65: $$\frac{{{{\mathrm{d}}}}m}{{{… [+25601 chars]
An exoplanet hunter and first-light detector on NASA's next-generation space telescope is ready to do science, six months after the observatory launched to space. The $10 billion James Webb Space Te… [+3158 chars]
<li>Halliwell, B. & Gutteridge J. M. C. Free Radicals in Biology and Medicine 5th edn (Oxford Univ. Press, 2015). </li><li>Sies, H. et al. Defining roles of specific reactive oxygen species (ROS… [+22687 chars]
Newswise — Snakes and lizards have distinct body movement patterns. Lizards bend from side to side as they retract their legs to walk or run. Snakes, on the other hand, slither and undulate, like a w… [+9370 chars]