We spend roughly one third of our lives sleeping, and yet researchers still dont fully understand why we spend so much of our lives asleep. Decades of research have linked sleep with memory processin… [+2896 chars]
When a single plate in an intermediate diaphragm breaks, grinding balls get into the inner construct of the diaphragm and can destroy it immediately. The breakage of a plate in a diaphragm entails re… [+1820 chars]
Aerial shot of Meteor Crater aka Barringer Crater, near Winslow, Arizona. getty An international team of researchers has found that carbon-crystals formed during a high-energy shock wave from an as… [+2381 chars]
Recently, Li and his colleagues used their method to characterize sporopollenin from more than 100 diverse land plant species collected from botanic gardens around the northeastern United States. Acc… [+5217 chars]
On 28 July, collectors will be given a rare chance to own a Gorgosaurus dinosaur skeleton during the Natural History Sale at Sotheby's New York. Estimated between US$5 and 8 million dollars, it is th… [+3985 chars]
Massive binary star systems in the galaxy form at the edges of open clusters or the leading edge of a spiral arm, a team of astronomers found. The work provides a window into what the galactic neighb… [+3296 chars]
Enlarge/ Here is a preliminary design of a Mars lander to be built by Impulse Space. 13 with 11 posters participating Relativity Space has not launched a single rocket, and Impulse Space has never … [+2789 chars]
In a demonstration of how machine learning can be used to accelerate the work of astronomy, researchers have used a cyborg approach to identify 40,000 ring galaxies. The cyborg approach here refers t… [+1831 chars]
WASHINGTON Astronomers have spotted in a galaxy adjacent to our Milky Way what they are calling a cosmic needle in a haystack a black hole that not only is classified as dormant but appears to have b… [+3782 chars]
Cell, tissue, and organ structure is maintained by cell-cell adhesion molecules that connect opposing cells. Cadherins are a class of essential cell-cell adhesion molecules for tissue formation and i… [+2481 chars]