It may seem like technology advances year after year, as if by magic. But behind every incremental improvement and breakthrough revolution is a team of scientists and engineers hard at work.UC Santa … [+5811 chars]
Lab-grown human heart cells provide a powerful tool to understand and potentially treat heart disease. However, the methods to produce human heart cells from pluripotent stem cells are not optimal. F… [+4225 chars]
ByAssociation of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA)July 1, 2022 An amateur astronomers keen eyes led to the discovery of an unusual ultra-faint dwarf galaxy on the outskirts of the Androm… [+9011 chars]
The word 'Selfie' was the 'word of the year' of Oxford Dictionaries in 2013. The concept was new in the preceding years. But since then the word (and photos) have become almost a second nature to us.… [+1336 chars]
When asked to name the most resilient animal, not many people likely think of tardigrades. In fact, most people probably dont even know that tardigrades exist. Affectionately called water bears or mo… [+4407 chars]
China's first successful interplanetary mission has completed mapping the Red Planet more than a year after its arrival. The Tianwen 1 orbiter used its medium-resolution camera to image the surfac… [+2769 chars]
On June 30, 2022, the world observed the International Asteroid Day. But days building up to it were extremely dramatic for the space agencies across the globe because of an asteroid named 2021 QM1. … [+2600 chars]
image: Heat maps of the confusion matrices of wheat (a) and rice (b) sample sets identified by InResSpectra.view more Credit: XU Zhuopin Recently, the crop quality intelligent perception team of H… [+2188 chars]
Its nice to have a feel-good story every once in a while, so heres one to hold off the existential dread: the Earth isnt likely to get flung off into deep space for at least 100,000 years. In fact, a… [+3602 chars]
Volcanic eruptions are a common occurrence on Earth, yet do they occur on other worlds in our solar system? For years, the Earth was the only known world that had active volcanoes on its surface. Alt… [+4512 chars]
Curing debilitating genetic diseases is one of the great challenges of modern medicine. During the past decade, development of CRISPR technologies and advancements in genetics research brought new ho… [+4572 chars]
An enormous comet that is twice the size of Mount Everest has entered the inner part of our solar system and is about to pass through Earth in July. Comet C/2017 K2 (PANSTARRS), called K2 for short,… [+1912 chars]
