The James Webb Space Telescope is not just a remarkable feat of engineering; its a beautiful one too. Take its 18 hexagonal mirrors made from gold-plated beryllium, which inspired YouTubes Cellar Ner… [+1787 chars]
Living and working in space for extended periods of time presents a number of challenges. These include radiation, as locations beyond Earth's protective magnetosphere are exposed to greater levels o… [+6593 chars]
<li>Zancolli, G. & Casewell, N. R. Venom systems as models for studying the origin and regulation of evolutionary novelties. Mol. Biol. Evol.37, 27772790 (2020). CAS PubMed Article Googl… [+22540 chars]
Scientists at the Institute for Auditory Neuroscience, UMG, the Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences and the Abberior Instruments GmbH have applied high-resolution 3D-MINFLUX technolog… [+5839 chars]
Aging and age-related disorders pose a complex challenge to the biomedical research community. To better understand how senescence is regulated is of high significance to promote healthy aging and tr… [+5138 chars]
Its been a rocky few months for U.S.-Russia relations, with discord between the two nations arising both on the ground and in space. Despite the current bad feelings, NASA and Roscosmos have finalise… [+3236 chars]
While climate change is taking effect everywhere on Earth, the Arctic Circle is feeling those effects most of all, in the form of glacial melt, permafrost thaw and sea ice decline. Key players in c… [+3461 chars]
Scientists from Tokyo Metropolitan University led a team that cracked the conventional weight-versus-angular-resolution trade-off by developing historically lightweight optics for X-Ray space telesco… [+3691 chars]
Scientists have found 17 dinosaur teeth in Australia that reveal new details about the species. Scientists have discovered 17 curved teeth from a giant herbivorous dinosaur that roamed the Australian… [+2256 chars]
After a mass algal die-off in the Pacific, researchers used satellites, undergrads, artificial intelligence and children in tide pools to figure out what was lostand how it might come back. Image by … [+13008 chars]
All the extra warmth of summer is also getting trapped in the Arctic Ocean, then released throughout the winter. The greatest warming in the Arctic is happening in winter, which maybe surprises peopl… [+4007 chars]
Jul 18 2022Reviewed by Alex Smith Mark Abbott expected to get a long-awaited view of the previous 160,000 years of climate change when he and his colleagues extracted a 300-foot-long core of mud fro… [+4487 chars]