Within a given tissue or organ, cells may appear very similar or even identical. But at the molecular level, these cells can have small differences that lead to wide variations in their functions. A… [+7278 chars]
WASHINGTON, July 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- NASA will provide live coverage of a spacewalk on Thursday, July 21, by a Russian cosmonaut and an ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut to continue outfitti… [+1697 chars]
The Moon isn’t necessarily there if you don’t look at it. So says quantum mechanics, which states that what exists depends on what you measure. Proving reality is like that usually involves the compa… [+6040 chars]
By Allan Brettman “The instrument,” as it’s called, seems to take up the entire room. The sprawling molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) systemis all tubes, bolts, stainless steel components, and air-tight … [+11347 chars]
Warm-bloodedness is a key mammal trait, but it's been a mystery when our ancestors evolved it. A new study in Nature points to an unlikely source for telling a fossil animal's body temperature: the s… [+4776 chars]
If you were to dive 148 feet below the oceans surfaceinto the twilight mesophotic zoneyou would see corals glowing green or orange around their mouths or on the ends of their tentacles. Scientists… [+4270 chars]
If you've been following the astronomy community on Twitter or, perhaps, Captain America himself, you've likely come across a story about the James Webb Space Telescope's latest find: The "oldest gal… [+4460 chars]
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You don’t normally want to mix electricity and water, but electricity behaving like water has the potential to improve electronic devices. Recent work from the groups of engineer James Hone at Columb… [+4250 chars]
What happens when a massive star dies? Conventional wisdom (and observational evidence) say that it can collapse to form a “stellar-mass” black hole. Astronomers detect black holes by the X-ray emiss… [+4886 chars]
Some particles are ordinary, like the protons and neutrons that make up the atomic nuclei of all the matter around us. They're stable under strong interactions and their basic properties are known. … [+6194 chars]
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