Many historical buildings were built of limestone, such as Vienna's St. Stephen's Cathedral. Limestone is easy to work with, but does not withstand weathering well. It consists mainly of calcite mine… [+3625 chars]
The James Webb Space Telescope may be getting most of the attention this summer, but next year, keep an eye out for NASA's Astrophysics Stratospheric Telescope for High Spectral Resolution Observatio… [+3246 chars]
That sense of energy crackling across the internet this week is for the arrival of the James Webb Space Telescope's first science images on Monday and Tuesday. Webb is the shiny new thing, but let's … [+1983 chars]
ByNASAJuly 11, 2022 This image of the Orion nebula, the brightest spot in the sword of the constellation Orion, shows carbon-rich molecules called polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) as wisps of… [+6106 chars]
Twenty years ago this week, a small spacecraft that had already taken a beating from zipping head-on in the direction of Halleys Comet at a speed of 245,000 kilometers per hour visited a second com… [+7971 chars]
The Science Roughly half of all flowering plants are “polyploid,” meaning that they have more than two sets of chromosomes, which contain the plants’ genes and DNA. Scientists believe that polyploid… [+3400 chars]
A genetic setup to investigate boundary function in vivo We previously demonstrated that a 150-kilobase (kb) region, the EP boundary, is sufficient to segregate the regulatory activities of the Epha… [+33714 chars]
The vast expanse of Lake Taup's sky blue waters, crowned by hazy, mountainous horizons, invokes an extreme sense of tranquility. And yet, deep in the ground below, geological unrest is brewing, acc… [+4982 chars]
The amount of carbon stored by microscopic plankton will increase in the coming century, predict researchers at the University of Bristol and the National Oceanography Centre (NOC).Using the latest I… [+3812 chars]
NASA has announced the winners of its fourth annual Photographer of the Year awards, with the images revealing intriguing behind-the-scenes photos from its most ambitious research projects. All of t… [+2371 chars]
As our devices get smaller and smaller, the use of molecules as the main components in electronic circuitry is becoming ever more critical. Over the past 10 years, researchers have been trying to use… [+4001 chars]
Gregor Mendel, the Moravian monk, was indeed "decades ahead of his time and truly deserves the title of 'founder of genetics.'" So concludes an international team of scientists as the 200th birthday … [+3693 chars]
