A University of Minnesota Twin Cities-led team has developed a new technique that allows scientists and engineers to, for the first time, visualize mRNA molecules in the brains of living mice. The re… [+4237 chars]
Work is progressing on a vital part of NASA's Mars sample return plans. The Mars Ascent Vehicle (MAV) is a small, lightweight, two-stage solid-propellant rocket with a big assignment: blast rock, se… [+6898 chars]
Enabling & Support06/07/20221008 views32 likes In a complex role-played version of a mission to the Moon, controllers at ESOC combined with a team of geological scientists and ESA astronaut Thom… [+6431 chars]
Scientists in California are asking for U.S. volunteers who live with cats to participate in a new research project. The study will survey owners about their pets behaviors and their knowledge of tra… [+2924 chars]
The mystery of how the first quasars in the universe formedsomething that has baffled scientists for nearly 20 yearshas now been solved by a team of astrophysicists whose findings are published in Na… [+3858 chars]
A new analysis by a team of physicists offers an innovative means to predict "cosmological signatures" for models of dark matter. A team of physicists has developed a method for predicting the compo… [+4658 chars]
A team of physicists at the University of Edinburgh's School of Physics and Astronomy has used mathematical calculations to show that quantum communications across interstellar space should be possib… [+2673 chars]
Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the Perimeter Institute recently set new constraints on dark photons, which a… [+5045 chars]
A small asteroid the size of a bus will make an extremely close approach to Earth on Thursday (July 7), passing within just 56,000 miles (90,000 kilometers) — or about 23% of the average distance bet… [+2273 chars]
More than a century ago, Albert Einstein conjured the hypothesis of all hypotheses -- an idea so extraordinary that it would relentlessly echo through the vast directory of human thought. It would a… [+15895 chars]
Could a brain ever exist on its own, divorced from or independent of a body? For a long time, philosophers have pondered such "brain-in-a-vat" scenarios, asking whether isolated brains could maintain… [+5008 chars]
The physics lab thats home to the worlds largest atom smasher announced on Tuesday (local time) the discovery of three new exotic particles that may give clues about the force that binds subatomic pa… [+1365 chars]