When my colleague Adam Marcus, editorial director at Medscape, and I launched the blog Retraction Watch in 2010, we didnt realize we were riding a wave. At the time, we thought journals were issuing … [+5268 chars]
For the first time, scientists from CNRS, Institut Curie and Sorbonne Université have been able to act physically on chromosomes in living cells. By subjecting the chromosomes to different forces usi… [+2443 chars]
ByRachel Hoover, NASA's Ames Research CenterAugust 2, 2022 Animation of NASAs Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover (VIPER) on the surface of the Moon. Credit: NASA Ames/Daniel Rutter NAS… [+4994 chars]
Sampling the radiation To understand the phylogenetic relationships between Alpine whitefish, we carried out whole-genome resequencing on 96 previously collected whitefish (with associated phenotypi… [+25365 chars]
Aug 2 2022Reviewed by Alex Smith Atoms could be made to attract each other using light. For the first time, a group from Vienna and Innsbruck have been able to calibrate this binding state of light … [+4313 chars]
Une aurore australe sous la lumière de la lune https://t.co/r9y1t2MgPp Thomas Pesquet (@Thom_astro) ) September 14, 2021 As Baggaley explains, the distinct green color of the aurora is due to the … [+693 chars]
Newswise — Woods Hole, Mass. (August 2, 2022) --Weddell seals, which are excellent divers, provide so much iron to their pups during lactation, that the mothers dramatically limit their own diving an… [+8062 chars]
Harnessing the power of robotics and machine intelligence, researchers from Princeton Engineering and Rutgers University have found a way to design stable proteins in a fraction of the time of curren… [+6468 chars]
In a recent study published in The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, researchers demonstrated an approach to detect tyrosinase (TYR) activity, an important biomarker for melanoma diagnosis, with the a… [+6509 chars]
The James Webb Space Telescope has caught a glimpse of the most distant star known in the universe, which had been announced by scientists using Webb's predecessor the Hubble Space Telescope only a f… [+3335 chars]
The identity of the first astronaut to blast off onboard the Artemis I mission to the moon has been revealed - and it is none other than Shaun the Sheep. A figurine of Aardman's beloved character wi… [+7664 chars]
On August 1, NASA posted a stunning image of the Andromeda galaxy on its official Instagram profile. However, it was not a regular image of our neighboring galaxy. Taken by the Hubble Space Telescope… [+1697 chars]