Three of the four science instruments on NASA's James Webb Space Telescope have completed their commissioning activities and are ready for science. Each of Webb's instruments has multiple modes of o… [+2726 chars]
A newly discovered star is so close to our galaxy's central supermassive black hole that it completes an orbit in just four years. That's the shortest orbit yet for one of the stars looping around t… [+3495 chars]
ByCalifornia Institute of TechnologyJuly 8, 2022 An artists depiction of a bacterial cell. Credit: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention/James Archer Since its inception, chemotherapy has prov… [+7611 chars]
Canadian technology start-up Medscint is partnering with researchers at UMC Utrecht to develop a real-time dosimetry platform for MR-guided adaptive radiotherapy Optical innovation, clinical transla… [+9265 chars]
Scientists have identified more than 1,500 genetic differences between migratory and non-migratory hoverflies. A team led by the University of Exeter captured migrating insects as they flew through … [+2784 chars]
A collaboration including researchers from Kobe University, University of Tokyo and Tohoku University has successfully identified and disrupted genes in the yeast Pichia pastoris (1) in order to incr… [+5799 chars]
ByMax Planck Institute for AstronomyJuly 8, 2022 Schematic representation of the view into cosmic history provided by the bright light of distant quasars. Observing with a telescope (bottom left) al… [+13773 chars]
Icy path: Chasing ghost particles at the South Pole. (Courtesy: Yuya Makino) This edition of the Red Folder looks at some images from two science-related photography contests. Last week the Interna… [+1557 chars]
Researchers at the NOMAD Laboratory at the Fritz Haber Institute have been engaged in describing how surfaces change in contact with reactive gas phases under different temperature and pressure condi… [+3358 chars]
Water is certainly the best-known liquid in the world. It plays a crucial role in all biological and many chemical processes. The water molecules themselves hardly hold any secrets. In school we lear… [+3045 chars]
A virtual creature swings four tentacle-like arms, pushing itself forward. It creeps up a hill then rushes down the other side. It looks like an octopus walking on land, says Agrim Gupta. This strang… [+6820 chars]
Our living planet is unique among all we've been able to explore in the Universe so far. From our axial tilt preventing too many temperature extremes, to our goldilocks zone position, life on Earth d… [+4018 chars]
