A tiny satellite aims to extend radiation studies conducted by CERN into space. The cubesat-sized CELESTA (CERN Latchup Experiment STudent sAtellite) is scheduled to launch on Wednesday (July 13) ab… [+2925 chars]
There are some knockout photography competitions out there, like this one for comedy wildlife and that one for astronomy.NASA, too, runs a Photographer of the Year competition. Its contest honors the… [+2337 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 … [+3041 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]
Using new technologies to study thousands of genes simultaneously within immune cells, researchers at Gladstone Institutes, UC San Francisco (UCSF), and Stanford School of Medicine have created the m… [+5552 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]
Avi Loeb, a professor of astronomy at Harvard, explained the reddish arcs are the ancient galaxies, while the light colored circles and ellipses belong to the younger galaxy cluster in the foreground… [+1561 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]
Newtons constant of gravitation has been measured by studying the gravitational interaction between vibrating metal beams, according to a paper published in Nature Physics. The experiment conducted i… [+1235 chars]
The field of artificial intelligence (AI) has made astonishing progress in recent years, mastering an increasing range of tasks that now include Atari video games1, board games such as chess and Go2,… [+31418 chars]
How does a nose remember that it’s a nose? Or an eye remember that it’s an eye? As scientists probe the question of how cells remember what kind of cells they are supposed to be, or their genetic li… [+7701 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]
