image: Garden eels anchor the lower part of their body in burrows, and face their heads against the current as they prey on zooplankton. The species pictured is the spotted garden eel, Heteroconger h… [+4747 chars]
By shining a laser pulse sequence inspired by the Fibonacci numbers at atoms inside a quantum computer, physicists have created a remarkable, never-before-seen phase of matter. The phase has the bene… [+6763 chars]
We’re all not living in outer space just yet, but it would probably be a good idea to be able to grow plants up there when the time comes, don’t you think? And some folks at the Space Plants Lab at … [+753 chars]
Jonathan AmosScience correspondent@BBCAmoson Twitter The US and Europe are remodelling their plans to bring rock samples back from Mars, for study in Earth laboratories. They hope to simplify the p… [+2769 chars]
NASA hopes to get its moon megarocket off the ground as soon as late August. NASA is working toward three "placeholder" launch dates for Artemis 1, an uncrewed test flight around the moon that serve… [+5135 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]
Coalescent with recombination The coalescent with recombination models a backward in time coalescent and recombination process17. In this process, three different events are possible: sampling, coal… [+17125 chars]
On NASAs website, there is a Where Is Webb? page, where visitors can track the current location of the James Webb Space Telescope. On that page, tap the Webb in 3D Solar System button, where you will… [+120 chars]
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has broken the record for the oldest galaxy ever observed by nearly 100 million years. The galaxy, called GLASS-z13, dates to just 300 million years after the bi… [+2308 chars]
With fossils dating back 500 million years ago, the well-preserved Burgess Shale in British Columbia is home to increasingly unlocked mysteries of the Cambrian Period, the era in which many of Earth’… [+1044 chars]
Approximately 365 million years ago, one group of fishes left the water to live on land. These animals were early tetrapods, a lineage that would radiate to include many thousands of species includin… [+6853 chars]
Lets be honest : Penguins are a little, well, weird. Theyre flightless birds that waddle around on the coldest reaches of planet Earth, but they can also dive to impressive depths below the ocean's … [+6235 chars]
