In the early '90s, on a trip to the Space Telescope Science Institute, Dave Meyer was met with an air of exhilaration and an urgent tone. "You've got to see this." Elsewhere in the building, image… [+12944 chars]
Online jokes about Tiktaalik roseae, the famous four-legged "fishapod" that first appeared on land 375 million years ago, have been going around throughout the epidemic. In the majority of depictions… [+4926 chars]
Introduction Evidence-based medicine (EBM), a set of principles and methods intended to ensure medical decisions are based on up-to-date and effective evidence, has been placed on par with antibioti… [+28099 chars]
Growing up with the largest radio telescope in the world in their backyard set Edgard Rivera-Valentín on a path of planetary exploration at an early age. Rivera-Valentín first visited Arecibo Observ… [+4218 chars]
Jul 25 2022Reviewed by Alex Smith Using data from the Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) and Very Large Telescope (VLT) of the European Southern Observatory (ESO), a European team of astronomers … [+5402 chars]
An international team including a University of Minnesota Twin Cities researcher has discovered a new large meat-eating dinosaur, called Meraxes gigas (shown above), which provides clues about the ev… [+5245 chars]
I drop rocks down mountainsides for science. Rockslides are a major hazard here in Switzerland. They can damage roads, railways, buildings and tunnels, and the risk only grows as climate change shrin… [+1749 chars]
Nasa has laser marked graffiti on Martian rocks to identify rock samples that will be brought to Earth for study.Nasa's Perseverance rover is currently collecting Martian samples from the 45 kilometr… [+1595 chars]
Volcanic habitats in Hawaii are rich in bacterial diversity, including many yet undiscovered species, shows a new study. These lava caves and geothermal vents are similar to what may have once existe… [+4763 chars]
Deep space ghost particles likely originate from galactic nuclei fed by supermassive black holes, according to a new study that could unravel the mystery of these subatomic particles that formed befo… [+3658 chars]
Microscope image of genetically engineered kidney organoids were used to solve a medical mystery about tuberous sclerosis complex. Credit: Cell Research Scientists have solved a medical mystery in a… [+3169 chars]
Nasa has laser marked graffiti on Martian rocks to identify rock samples that will be brought to Earth for study.Nasa's Perseverance rover is currently collecting Martian samples from the 45 kilometr… [+1595 chars]