Aug. 3 (UPI) -- The most distant star known to exist in the universe has been spotted by the James Webb Space Telescope. It comes just months after scientists using the Hubble Space Telescope announc… [+1453 chars]
United Launch Alliance (ULA) will launch a missile warning satellite for the U.S. Space Force (USSF) Thursday (Aug. 4) morning, and you can watch it live. A 194-foot-tall (59 meters) Atlas V rocke… [+2815 chars]
First attempts at visual acuity testing by optotypes Opticians realized earlier than ophthalmologists, that texts and their distance from the eyes were important for prescribing good glasses [30,31,… [+18091 chars]
NASA's Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere (PUNCH) mission will share a ride to space with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory's Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of … [+2891 chars]
ByIMBA - Institute of Molecular BiotechnologyAugust 3, 2022 Organization of mitotic chromosomes (magenta) and spindle microtubules (green) at an early phase of cell division. Shortly after whats sho… [+5294 chars]
There are presently no effective treatments for chromophobe renal cell carcinoma, a rare type of kidney cancer. A novel treatment for a rare kind of kidney cancer has been uncovered. There are curr… [+1700 chars]
Physicists are (temporarily) augmenting reality to crack the code of quantum systems. Predicting the properties of a molecule or material requires calculating the collective behavior of its electron… [+4088 chars]
A giant explosion has erupted on the solar surface, making a new and active region that sent a solar storm hurtling towards Earth. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) forecasters h… [+1624 chars]
New Zealand has a research ticket to work on the International Space Station. The country partnered with commercial research company Axiom Space on July 28 to fly experiments on future missions with… [+3193 chars]
Landslides are one striking example of erosion. When the bonds that hold particles of dirt and rock together are overwhelmed by a force -- often in the form of water -- sufficient to pull the rock an… [+5472 chars]
Researchers at the University of Bristol and Scottish Universities Environmental Research Centre have discovered that super-eruptions occur when huge accumulations of magma deep in the Earth's crust,… [+2889 chars]
The Earth has recorded its personal best time for a single rotation and scientists are now theorising that it may have been caused by the melting polar ice caps. Earth from space. File photo. Photo:… [+2920 chars]