Researchers have found that some retrons encode toxin proteins, which they keep inactive with the help of a small DNA fragment, and when a bacterial virus (phage) attacks bacteria the DNA can sense t… [+759 chars]
NASA released a new photograph of galaxy cluster SMACS 0723 last week which depicts a cluster of galaxies in space invisible to the human eye. The image was captured by the James Webb Space Telescop… [+2176 chars]
A team of international experts who are known for debunking black hole discoveries have found a dormant stellar-mass black hole in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a galaxy that neighbors the Milky Way. T… [+4994 chars]
Its the stuff of disaster movies and sensational headlines: An asteroid, meteor, or comet is headed toward Earth. Are we doomed? Isnt this what took out the dinosaurs? Will we have enough lead time t… [+5500 chars]
Researcher Dhruv Sareens own stem cells are now orbiting the Earth. The mission? To test whether theyll grow better in zero gravity. Scientists at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles are tryi… [+4750 chars]
Globular clusters are stable, tightly bound clusters of tens of thousands to millions of stars. The Milky Way Galaxy contains more than 150 globular clusters. They are arranged in a nearly spherical … [+1050 chars]
Associate Professor Chris Richardson co-authors journal article with colleagues to shed light on reionization in the early universe.As part of a collaboration spurred by the FACE Foundation, Associat… [+876 chars]
C/2017 K2 (PanSTARRS), sometimes called the K2 “megacomet,” came closest to Earth on Thursday, July 14, at a distance of about 168 million miles. The CanadaFranceHawaii Telescope (CFHT) suggested K2’… [+1124 chars]
In the evolutionary arms race between rattlesnakes and their prey, rodents, birds and other reptiles develop resistance to the snakes' deadly venom to survive. But new research led by the University … [+5760 chars]
Metro Vancouver stargazers, rejoice! One of the brightest and most popular meteor showers has kicked off in the Lower Mainland (and across all of the Northern Hemisphere, for that matter) and will … [+2425 chars]
Remember when Elon Musk launched a car into space? That car's not just peacefully drifting through a vacuumit's hurtling around the sun at 63,592 miles per hour, being bombarded by solar radiation. I… [+707 chars]
NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has detected new extrasolar planets. The two works were labeled as TOI-5152 b and TOI-5153 b. These extrasolar planets are said to be three times… [+2758 chars]
