Inside Earth, elements such as iron and aluminum experience such extreme temperatures and pressures that the materials ooze through Earth’s interior—on geological timescales—like sap moves through a … [+2671 chars]
Gaia scientists are agog after finding out that the star-spotting spacecraft can double as a planet-hunter. In a mission first, the long-time star surveyor spotted two Jupiter-size planets in a remo… [+2858 chars]
A tiny piece of rural Washington stateand some of its "inhabitants" blasted off into space from Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Thursday, July 14. The inhabitants are bacteria that live in the so… [+5366 chars]
Just a few days after NASA released images of the distant universe from the James Webb Space Telescope, Greek researcher Polychronis Patapis, a member of the team and one of the first to see them, sa… [+830 chars]
Enlarge/ Anna Kikina will be the fifth Russian woman to go to space. 85 with 50 posters participating NASA and its Russian counterpart, Roscosmos, have officially agreed to exchange seats on four … [+3401 chars]
Life in the Arctic is harsh. Arctic temperatures are punishing, making life difficult for many animals to survive. Yet lots of insects, including mosquitoes, manage to thrive in the frozen region. So… [+3810 chars]
RUDN veterinarians studied how the intestinal microbiota in cats changes during dysbacteriosis. The patterns obtained will help to make a more accurate diagnosis and select an adequate treatment. The… [+2569 chars]
A particularly fascinating phenomenon arises for proteins that contain a topological knot in their polypeptide backbone, that is, proteins that would not fully disentangle after being pulled from bot… [+2149 chars]
40 with 29 posters participating Slow-motion video of pecking by the pileated woodpecker (Dryocopus pileatus). The original video was recorded at 1600 frames per second. Credit: Robert Shadwick &… [+4305 chars]
The supermoon lit up the skies this week, peaking on Wednesday when it appeared 30% bigger and brighter than usual. Also known as the Buck Moon, July’s full Moon gets its name from early Native Ame… [+2810 chars]
A SpaceX Dragon cargo capsule will meet up with the International Space Station (ISS) on Saturday (July 16), and you can watch the orbital action live. The robotic Dragon launched atop a two-stage F… [+4792 chars]
Machine learning is unlocking the cosmos. Scientists from the National Astronomy Meeting announced that humans worked together with machine intelligence to find 40,000 ring galaxies throughout the u… [+3054 chars]
