Tailoring a person's diet or medicine based on their genomes has been a goal of the medical community for decades, but the strategy has not been widely successful because people metabolize chemicals … [+4494 chars]
An astronomer sandwiched data from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) into a breathtaking image. The galaxy Messier 74 (M74) shines about 32 million light years away in the constellation Pisces… [+2683 chars]
Stars don't usually evolve fast enough for humans to notice them change within one lifetime. Even a hundred lifetimes won't doastronomical processes are just too slow. But not always. There are some … [+9348 chars]
image: PPPL physicist Andreas Kleiner in front of graphs illustrating the phenomena of resistivity in plasma.view more Credit: Collage by Kiran Sudarsanan / PPPL Office of Communication Researcher… [+6275 chars]
An image resembling a bit of leftover space spaghetti won the people's vote for Perseverance's "Image of the Week". The photo raises questions about how missions to the Red Planet could present issue… [+2196 chars]
In space, no one wants to deal with the cleanup from liquids, flames or other messy science experiments. That's why NASA shipped a special facility to the International Space Station to do a deep di… [+3159 chars]
Jul 19 2022Reviewed by Alex Smith The biggest challenge in isolating and identifying molecules in a microdevice has been overcome by assistant professor Jinglei Ping from the University of Massachus… [+3006 chars]
The future can arrive in sudden bursts. What seems a long way off can suddenly jump into view, especially when technology is involved. That might be true of self-replicating machines. Will we combine… [+10641 chars]
Researchers are investigating whether stem cells may grow better in zero gravity conditions than here on Earth. Researcher Dhruv Sareen's stem cells have made their way to the International Space St… [+1749 chars]
A team of physicists have used a pair of vibrating rods to measure the gravitational constant to incredibly fine precision. While the new technique has relatively high uncertainty, they hope that fut… [+2433 chars]
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the biggest and most complex machine ever built by mankind, began operations again in April this year after nearly three years of maintenance and upgrades. After the … [+6544 chars]
Early Life and Education Bernard Belleau was born in Montreal on 15 March 1925 to Marguerite Croteau (Quebec City) and Rolland Belleau (Plessiville, Quebec). Childhood interests and curiosities le… [+5320 chars]