An international team of researchers gathered at the Esrange Space Center in Kiruna, Sweden on Tuesday (July 12) to watch the launch of XL-Calibur, a balloon-borne telescope that will measure X-ray e… [+3552 chars]
Researchers at I2R ASTAR Singapore and UM-CNRS LIRMM in France have recently developed a framework that could improve the ability of robots to identify objects in their surroundings that could be pot… [+6384 chars]
By mimicking features of living systems, self-organizing lasers could lead to new materials for sensing, computing, light sources and displays. While many artificial materials have advanced properti… [+3635 chars]
The SK 48 cranium of an ancient hominin, Paranthropus robustus, was one of the fossils included in the analysis of some new claims on human evolution. Credit: Carrie S. Mongle Uncovering the evoluti… [+2752 chars]
NASA's Mars rover Perseverance has collected its 10th tiny rock sample as it continues exploring the Red Planet looking for fragments of Martian soil that might harbor traces of past life, which a fu… [+2572 chars]
Water fleas are masters of adaptation. Researchers from Ruhr-Universität Bochum (RUB), the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg and the Technical University of Darmstadt have discovered that they can … [+4346 chars]
Groundbreaking research led by Rebecca Bart, PhD, associate member, and Nigel Taylor, PhD, associate member and Dorothy King distinguished investigator, Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, and thei… [+4707 chars]
But this chemical defense creates a big problem for sea cucumbers: They need to avoid killing themselves with their own toxins. And that means their own cells cant contain cholesterol, the target tha… [+4717 chars]
The European Space Agency (ESA) has celebrated the first flight of its Vega-C rocket. Vega-C is an upgrade to the Vega rocket that made its debut in 2012 as a launcher specialising in lifting small … [+1321 chars]
Your gut is a wondrous place. A special layer of cells that coats the insides of your small and large intestines takes in nutrients and water from what you ate while keeping anything bad out of your … [+4842 chars]
Researchers have shown that a quantum-inspired technique can be used to perform LiDAR imaging with a much higher depth resolution than is possible with conventional approaches. LiDAR, which uses lase… [+4563 chars]
The universe contains billions of galaxies, of which our own Milky Way is just one. Often thought of as vast agglomerations of stars, which is how they look in photographs, galaxies actually contain … [+5227 chars]
