A simplified model suggests that flipping a burger four times is the most efficient route to fully cooked perfection. When it comes to burgers, Jean-Luc Thiffeault likes his rare. The mathematician … [+4112 chars]
Future treatments for advanced cancer could work by sticking cancer cells in place and preventing their spread around the body. A new study by researchers at the University of California, Davis, and … [+2236 chars]
Scientists have constructed the most complete and detailed single-cell map of embryo development in any animal to date, using the fruit fly as a model organism. Published in Science, this study, co-… [+6742 chars]
Dwarf galaxies are small, faint galaxies that can usually be found in galaxy clusters or near larger galaxies. Because of this, they might be affected by the gravitational effects of their larger com… [+4292 chars]
Lockheed Martin announced on Thursday that it has successfully launched its sixth missile warning satellite from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. The satellite is the last of the U… [+1189 chars]
Ultrafast pulses from X-ray lasers reveal how atoms move at timescales of a femtosecond. That's a quadrillionth of a second. However, measuring the properties of the pulses themselves is challenging.… [+3050 chars]
Robot lawnmowers around the world have been given an update to sing Happy Birthday at set times today, to celebrate the Curiosity Rover’s 10th year on Mars. An unusual global harmony is taking place… [+2139 chars]
Comment on this story The Hunga Tonga-Hunga Haapai eruption lasted less than a day, but it unleashed the most water vapor into the atmosphere by a volcano on record.Researchers say the blast may tem… [+4836 chars]
Professor Pascale Ehrenfreund. Credit: Franz Johann Morgenbesser Edinburgh, 5 August 2022. – The Committee on Space Research (COSPAR) announced the election of Professor Pascale Ehrenfreund as its n… [+1235 chars]
NASAs Perseverance Mars rover is on a roll, having now collected and cached 12 samples of rock and soil during its ongoing explorations of the red planets Jezero Crater. In a tweet (below) posted on… [+2205 chars]
Today's VIS image shows a section of Cerberus Fossae. Located southeast of the Elysium Planitia volcanic complex, the linear graben near the top of the image was created by tectonic forces related to… [+1129 chars]
It's a record that has been broken multiple times over the past two years alone, and one that we expect to see broken again soon. Astronomers using the newly operational James Webb Space Telescope (… [+4345 chars]
