ByUniversity of Colorado at BoulderJuly 28, 2022 Timelapse image of grains of dust undergoing electrostatic lofting in a vacuum chamber. Credit: IMPACT Lab/LASP Tiny grains of dust may hop around o… [+7239 chars]
RS Puppis, a particularly bright Cepheid variable star, imaged by the Hubble space telescope in 2010. Image: ESA, NASA, STScI/AURA <ul><li>Henrietta Swan Leavitt was one of the Harvard computers a t… [+6012 chars]
Our solar system is home to eight planets, all of which are categorized between two different types of planet: rocky and gas giant. The four inner planets, Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars, are all ro… [+3145 chars]
The benefits of 3D printing are now widely recognized across a diverse range of industries. In recent years, the aerospace sector has been exploring 3D printing techniques to design and develop innov… [+5473 chars]
Atomic force microscopy (AFM) is a very popular analysis tool for 3D surface topology visualization and other measurements on a wide range of materials at nanoscales. Image Credit: photoinnovation/… [+7609 chars]
Summary: Early social interactions allow children to learn quickly how to coordinate with each other’s behavior. Source: NCCR What do building pyramids, going to the moon, paddling a two-person can… [+7038 chars]
The new image of the Carina Nebula captured using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has astronomers excited as they are hopeful for groundbreaking discoveries in the future. Thanks to Webb's unpr… [+2566 chars]
Scientists from the Natural History Museum in the UK have discovered over 30 potentially new species living at the bottom of the sea. The new species were collected from the abyssal plains of the Cla… [+3091 chars]
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New research in biomechanics measures the impact of head-first, hand-first and feet-first diving and the likelihood of injury at different diving heights, providing data-driven recommendations for sa… [+3751 chars]
Using the VLT Survey Telescope (VST), European astronomers have investigated a peculiar star cluster in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), known as KMHK 1762. Results of the study were published July … [+3231 chars]
The chemical modification of nucleic acids, methylation, exists not only on DNA but also on RNA. Whether this methylation is important for certain cell types and what effects it has on the interactio… [+3200 chars]
