The invasion of Ukraine has taken a toll on Russias ongoing partnerships with the U.S. and Europe in space. Yesterday, the European Space Agency announced that its fully terminating its cooperation w… [+3723 chars]
Highly energetic and difficult to detect, neutrinos travel billions of light years before reaching our planet. Although it is known that these elementary particles come from the depths of our univers… [+5719 chars]
Polyploidy or whole-genome duplication (WGD) provides extra substrates for genomic evolution and is thus considered as an important driving force for genetic diversity, trait innovation, and ecologic… [+2851 chars]
Quantized vortices play a pivotal role in the interpretation of quantum phase transitions and strongly correlated physics involving the underlying confluence of superfluids, Bose-Einstein condensates… [+2793 chars]
Study co-author Agnieszka Wykowska pictured with the deceptively "self-aware" robot iCub. (Image credit: Italian Institute of Technology) (opens in new tab)An uncannily human-like robot that had bee… [+6940 chars]
As one of the largest-volume industrial chemical processes today, hydroformylation converts olefins, H2 and CO into aldehydes and related products more than 10 million tons annually. Although Au exh… [+2366 chars]
There are hundreds of billions of galaxies in the universe, each containing billions of stars, and found in every part of the sky. But in some directions, nearby galaxies block the view of the more d… [+2647 chars]
An important function of our cells' signaling pathways is to coordinate growth with environmental cues, such as the availability of nutrients in the cell's environment. Cell growth plays an important… [+5557 chars]
The first stunning images from the James Webb Space Telescope were revealed this week, but its journey of cosmic discovery has only just begun. Here is a look at two early projects that will take ad… [+4717 chars]
A team of astronomers have discovered a mysterious short-duration astronomical event, or transient, that is as bright as a superluminous supernova, but evolving much faster, reports a study in The As… [+5140 chars]
Bad wireless reception, the noise in the radio signal or poor visibility in the fogall these annoyances have to do with the fact that waves such as visible light or microwave signals are deflected an… [+4893 chars]
An artist's rendering of the Swarm constellation. ESA The European Space Agencys Swarm mission is made up of three spacecraft circling Earth to study our planets magnetic field. And recently the sm… [+1739 chars]