A Solar and Heliospheric Observatory image shows Region 486 that unleashed a record flare last week ... [+] (lower left) November 18, 2003 on the sun. The spot itself cannot yet be seen but large, ho… [+7183 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]
The ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is on the eve of a new data harvest with the restart of the LHC for Run 3. The upcoming four-year run will provide a dataset nearly twice the s… [+3425 chars]
Ten years ago, scientists announced the discovery of the Higgs boson, which helps explain why elementary particles (the smallest building blocks of nature) have mass. For particle physicists, this wa… [+6502 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]
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]
Volcanoes account for some of Earth's most interesting and violent geographical features, a force for destruction and creation. However, volcanic activity isn't limited to our planet and space volca… [+8018 chars]
image: Raman and Infrared Spectroscopy Identified Different Acetylated Lysineview more Credit: YAO Guohua Recently, a research team led by Prof. Huang Qing from Hefei Institutes of Physical Scienc… [+2385 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]
Exploring beneath the surface of other planets may be the key to determining whether life has ever existed outside of Earth. As other missions, including that of NASA's InSight lander, have shown, d… [+6066 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]
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]
