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]
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]
Newswise — ITHACA, N.Y. -- Producing biomaterials that match the performance of cartilage and tendons has been an elusive goal for scientists, but a new material created at Cornell demonstrates a pro… [+3155 chars]
Recording and decoding short digital text messages with DNA Typewriter. a, Base64 binary-to-text was modified to assign 64 NNNGGA barcodes for TAPE-1 to 64 text characters. b, Illustration of the enc… [+7209 chars]
Newswise — New climate models have found that the amount and location of land on a planet’s surface can significantly impact its habitability. Astronomers have identified substantial differences in s… [+2558 chars]
ByVanessa Thomas, NASAs Goddard Space Flight CenterJuly 11, 2022 This illustration shows the three CubeSats of NASAs EZIE mission flying in formation above Earth. The spacecraft will study electrica… [+3413 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]
Insect-eating plants have fascinated biologists for more than a century, but how plants evolved the ability to capture and consume live prey has largely remained a mystery. Now, Salk scientists, alon… [+5272 chars]
Oregon State University fossil research has revealed an exquisite merger of art and science: a long-stemmed flower of a newly described plant species encased in a 30-million-year-old tomb together wi… [+3643 chars]
Beginning skywatchers can get great value for their dollar with a deep discount on one of our favorite telescopes. The Celestron StarSense Explorer LT 80AZ is on sale at Walmart right now for $199.9… [+2461 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]
Great White Shark is the mean killing machine of the deep oceans. It is not often that you see in nature, a creature whose every fibre has evolved over millions of years for one purpose, to hunt. The… [+1717 chars]
