When faced with a formidable foe for months on end, the immune system's T cells begin to tire. Whether fighting a cancer or a chronic infection, they become less effective over time, a phenomenon dub… [+5334 chars]
SpaceX and NASA have set a new date for the already-delayed CRS-25 resupply mission that will send a robotic Dragon capsule to the International Space Station aboard a Falcon 9 rocket. NASA now says … [+2126 chars]
image: Lower jaw and front limb bones of wood mice (Apodemus cf. sylvaticus) and blackthorn fruit with gnawing traces by mice.view more Credit: Raül Soteras, AgriChange Project As early as the Neo… [+3774 chars]
After a successful drilling of Avanavero, the team is ready to dig even deeper into our investigation of this new drill target. Tosol’s plan includes an important part of this process: our initial an… [+1327 chars]
Earth’s oceans are one huge, uniform electrolyte solution. They contain salt (sodium chloride) and other nutrients like magnesium, sulphate, and calcium. We can’t survive without electrolytes, and li… [+9638 chars]
The overdeveloped spiral arm of the galaxy NGC 772, which was created by tidal interactions with an unruly neighbor, dominates this observation made by astronomers using the Gemini North telescope lo… [+2864 chars]
The Science Partner Journal (SPJ) program is pleased to announce that the first journal it launched, Research, has received its inaugural Journal Impact Factor, 11.036, ranking it #10 among 73 jour… [+4761 chars]
We are carbon-based life forms. That means the basis for the chemical compounds that forms our life is the element carbon. It’s crucial because it bonds with other elements such as hydrogen and oxyge… [+5743 chars]
Figure 1a shows the optimized structure of pristine hBN. The optimized lattice vectors a = b = 5.027 Å are in good agreement with reported experimental and theoretical results30,31. Our considered su… [+20300 chars]
To solve a long-standing puzzle about how long a neutron can "live" outside an atomic nucleus, physicists entertained a wild but testable theory positing the existence of a right-handed version of ou… [+7546 chars]
image: A zebrafish showing the skeleton and jaw (magenta), the eye (green circle on the leT), and gill-like pseudobranch and gills (green structures on the right).view more Credit: Image by Mathi T… [+4758 chars]
Better Together As ambitious as the SWIM concept is, its intent would be to reduce risk while enhancing science. The cryobot would be connected via a communications tether to the surface-based lande… [+2714 chars]
