Fuerteventura and Lanzarote, part of the Canary Islands lying in the North Atlantic Ocean, are featured in this false-color image captured on September 24, 2021, by the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission.… [+2820 chars]
Lots of little dots with no apparent pattern: Where laypeople may just see milky gray photos sprinkled with what look like random crumbs, it is enough to make astronomers' hearts miss a beat. We are … [+5144 chars]
A detailed analysis of interactions between MBZ with BSA is not available in the literature. This tempted us to extensively characterize the interactions of MBZ with BSA using various spectroscopic a… [+14243 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 a … [+2039 chars]
Nasa has released a stunning teaser image from the James Webb Space Telescope. It comes ahead of next weeks long-awaited wider release of images from the telescope showing what Nasa says will be unp… [+3805 chars]
As the largest predatory fish on Earth, great white sharks are already impressive, armed with up to 300 serrated teeth and weighing up to 5,000 pounds. Now, new research adds more intrigue to the oce… [+6532 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]
The James Webb Space Telescope will soon turn its eyes to the solar system's king, the gas giant Jupiter. Jupiter is a complex system full of mysteries, hosting realms of questions concerning the na… [+4702 chars]
Researchers from the University of Turku have described seven new fern species from the rainforests of tropical America. Many of the species were uncovered as the byproduct of ecological research: th… [+5234 chars]
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For the function of many biomolecules, their three-dimensional structure is crucial. Researchers are therefore not only interested in the sequence of the individual building blocks of biomolecules, b… [+3943 chars]