Deep underground: the Gran Sasso low radioactivity lab where the experiment was done. (Courtesy: Massimiliano De Deo, LNGS-INFN) A controversial theory put forward by physicist Roger Penrose and ana… [+6687 chars]
Now I know how a footballer feels to score at Wembley, and what it is like to appear on Glastonburys Pyramid Stage. To my sheer disbelief, at an auction room just over a week ago, I achieved my lifel… [+8760 chars]
In 2008, the mathematicians Mu-Tao Wang of Columbia University and Shing-Tung Yau, now a professor at Tsinghua University in China and an emeritus professor at Harvard University, advanced a definiti… [+5247 chars]
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Jonathan AmosScience correspondent@BBCAmoson Twitter Media caption, Watch Vega-C leave the launch pad at the Kourou spaceport in French Guiana Europe has given a successful debut to its new Vega-C … [+4336 chars]
NASA and SpaceX are ready for Cargo Dragon’s 25th International Space Station resupply mission after a one-month delay. Originally scheduled to launch in early June, SpaceX’s 25th Commercial Resuppl… [+2515 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]
ByUniversity of California - BerkeleyJuly 13, 2022 This animation depicts a star experiencing spaghettification as its sucked in by a supermassive black hole during a tidal disruption event. In a ne… [+9639 chars]
If there were ever a video ideal for displaying how safety equipment can save lives, it's this one. It comes to us from Motive Video on YouTube during its coverage of the 2022 GT-R Challenge, a runwa… [+1200 chars]
Grab your binoculars: A comet that has fascinated scientists for five years approaches its closest distance from Earth this week — and you might be able to catch a glimpse. There’s a chance of spot… [+5252 chars]
New research that harnessed the power of artificial intelligence has identified the specific crater on Mars that ejected the ancient Black Beauty meteorite. The researchers named the Mars crater aft… [+4300 chars]
Cell culture Cell lines RPE1-hTERT (Flp-In) (a gift from the laboratory of P. Jallepalli), Caco-2 (a gift from the laboratory of H. Clevers), HeLa (a gift from the laboratory of M. Vermeulen), HT-29… [+17768 chars]