View larger | Hubble Space Telescope view of Earth-sized bruises on Jupiter, caused by Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9’s spectacular multiple impacts with the giant planet in 1994. This image is from a few da… [+7005 chars]
<li>Dionisio, F., Matic, I., Radman, M., Rodrigues, O. R. & Taddei, F. Plasmids spread very fast in heterogeneous bacterial communities. Genetics162(4), 15251532 (2002). CAS PubMed PubMed … [+14118 chars]
The biomolecule diphthamide is essential for the proper formation of proteins in cells. When humans are infected with diphtheria, diphthamide is altered by the diphtheria toxin so that life-threateni… [+2918 chars]
A team of physicists at MIT recently published a mind-blowing research paper detailing their successful efforts to use entanglement and quantum time-reversal to create sensors capable of incredibly d… [+6077 chars]
Astronomers from the University of Warwick reveal a new phenomenon dubbed the "rocking shadow" effect that describes how discs in forming planetary systems are oriented, and how they move around thei… [+2420 chars]
Diffraction spikes are so in right now The first full-color image released from the JWST. Image: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI Stars in the new images from the James Webb Space Telescope look sharper than… [+4219 chars]
Artists view of Swarm, ESAs first Earth observation constellation of satellites. Credit: ESAP. Carril, 2013 The pressure is rising at ESAs mission control. A European Space Agency (ESA) satellite do… [+5587 chars]
ByMatt Williams, Universe TodayJuly 15, 2022 Artists impression of how Triton, Neptunes largest moon, might look from high above its surface. The distant Sun appears at the upper left and the blue c… [+16268 chars]
A supercomputer simulation shows massive stars forming (red) in a cloud of ancient gas. (Image credit: University of Portsmouth / Nature) Twinkling like cosmic lighthouses on a shore 13 billion ligh… [+3831 chars]
A piece of Mars that fell to Earth more than 2 centuries ago is telling planetary scientists a little about how the Red Planet was born. A recent analysis of the meteorite showed that volatile elemen… [+6478 chars]
A team of scientists in the Physical Intelligence Department at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems have combined robotics with biology by equipping E. coli bacteria with artificial comp… [+5823 chars]
Groundwater that was recently discovered deep underground in a mine in South Africa is estimated to be 1.2 billion years old. Researchers suspect that the groundwater is some of the oldest on the pl… [+4767 chars]
