"NOT EMBRYOS" While they were the most advanced synthetic embryo-like structures ever grown, some scientists not involved in the research warned against calling them "embryos". "These are not embry… [+1898 chars]
This story is part of Welcome to Mars, our series exploring the red planet. Oh, Mars, you're such a goof. You've got a "happy face" crater and an eyeball crater. But you weren't content to rest on … [+1555 chars]
Two NASA missions will take a roadtrip together to orbit in April 2025, the agency announced. Onboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will be five spacecraft, one devoted to astrophysics and the other four… [+2377 chars]
Trace gas detection based on laser absorption spectroscopy (LAS) is a powerful technique due to its high sensitivity and selectivity, and it is widely used in many fields. Most of current works are p… [+2726 chars]
Newswise — Associated Universities, Inc. (AUI) and the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) have awarded the 2022 Karl G. Jansky Lectureship to Professor Françoise Combes, Chair of Galaxies an… [+2266 chars]
An image of the unnamed spaghetti worm from the newly released MBARI video. (Image credit: 2012 MBARI) (opens in new tab)A bizarre seafloor creature covered with luminous orange, spaghetti-like tent… [+2744 chars]
Newswise — A study published recently in the prestigious journal Nature Ecology and Evolution has unveiled some of the key processes in marine microbial evolution. According to the study, led by the … [+3903 chars]
Near-infrared window-II (NIR-II, 1000-1700 nm) fluorescence imaging has recently emerged as the frontrunner in molecular imaging and translational research. Donor-acceptor-donor (D-A-D) type organic… [+2211 chars]
In October 2007, the otherwise underwhelming comet known as 17P/Holmes produced the most spectacular cometary outburst ever observed. Debris from this event will be visible this month to amateur tele… [+4352 chars]
From the outside, the little pebble looks like an ordinary rock yellowish-brown, a little lumpy, and only aboutthree3 grams in mass. But beneath that brownish veneer, its studded with microscopic d… [+6901 chars]
Researchers, for the very first time, have managed to observe one of the most powerful flashes in the sky caused by the collision of a star and a neutron star, by a millimetre wavelength radio astron… [+2083 chars]
NASA's Curiosity Mars rover used its Mast Camera, or Mastcam, to take this 360-degree panorama of at the "Avanavero" drill site. The panorama is made up of 127 individual images taken on June 20, 202… [+1112 chars]
