Scientists at the University of Virginia School of Medicine and their collaborators have used DNA to overcome a nearly insurmountable obstacle to engineer materials that would revolutionize electroni… [+4283 chars]
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Scientists may have just tracked down the source of some mysterious infrared glows detected emanating from stars and clouds of interstellar dust and gas. These Unidentified Infrared Emission (UIE) b… [+4047 chars]
Scientists have discovered dark matter around galaxies that existed about 12 billion years ago, the earliest detection yet of this mysterious substance that dominates the universe. The findings, ac… [+6924 chars]
NASA is just weeks away from launching its first Artemis flight to the moon this month and you can learn all about the mission in free webcasts this week. Artemis 1, NASA's uncrewed deep-space test… [+3653 chars]
Beginning in the 1970s cosmologists started to uncover the structure of the universe writ large. They already knew that galaxies occasionally clump together into clusters, but over even larger distan… [+13286 chars]
The first mammals to return to the sea, more than 35 million years ago, had eyes for the deep. According to new research, the visual systems of modern whales, dolphins, and porpoises collectively kn… [+2864 chars]
The group building the Giant Magellan Telescope in Chile has secured a $205 million investment that will help push construction of the massive instrument over the finish line. The money will go towar… [+2747 chars]
NASA's venerable space telescope is seeing double in a stunning new image of a distant galaxy. The new image from the Hubble Space Telescope captures a galaxy named SGAS J143845+145407, located i… [+2519 chars]
NASA's Perseverance rover has grabbed another rock that may contain clues as to whether there was life on Mars. Officials with the Mars mission announced the milestone briefly Monday (Aug. 1) on Twi… [+2398 chars]
The first mammals to return to the sea, more than 35 million years ago, had eyes for the deep. According to new research, the visual systems of modern whales, dolphins, and porpoises collectively kn… [+2864 chars]