Earth is surrounded by some celestial neighbours in the soar system and then there are the nasty ones that come calling, threatening to destroy everything in their paths! These are known as Near-Eart… [+2040 chars]
New experiments hone in on a never-before-measured region of strong force coupling, a quantity that supports theories accounting for 99 percent of the ordinary mass in the universe. Thomas Jefferson… [+9023 chars]
An icy visitor from the distant Oort Cloud is still in view if you know exactly where to look for it. The comet is C/2017 K2 PanSTARRS. Its in the name: the comet was discovered five years ago in 2… [+4167 chars]
Spectral properties of the purified P450s and surrogate RPs The three selected P450s and three pairs of surrogate RPs were successfully expressed and purified. All these proteins were purified to ho… [+18627 chars]
Ask astronomers about dark matter and one of the things they talk about is that this invisible, mysterious “stuff” permeates the universe. In particular, it exists in halos surrounding most galaxies.… [+5122 chars]
Bicyclic Carbon FixationNREL scientists have designed a pathway for speeding up CO2 fermentation in some species of bacteria. The resulting moleculeacetyl-CoA, with its two unique carbon handles (C2)… [+5124 chars]
More than half a billion years ago, Earth experienced an almost-complete collapse of its magnetic field. It began in the early Cambrian period. Then, after a period of about 15 million years, the f… [+5978 chars]
NASA is already studying an asteroid named Bennu under its OSIRIS-REx mission to better understand its characteristics. It even plans to return a sample of asteroid Bennu to Earth for detailed analys… [+2059 chars]
For now, scientists are calling the meteor CNEOS 2014-01-08, and they believe it to be about a half-meter wide. The object was first recognized by then graduate student Amir Siraj and Harvard profess… [+1239 chars]
The Hubble Space Telescope has captured an image of the NGC 6638 globular cluster. The image highlights the increase of density of stars towards the centre of star clusters. NGC 6638 is located withi… [+1737 chars]
SpaceX's Falcon 9 Rocket was on its way to completing its first stage as it gears for sending astronauts to the Internet Space Station (ISS). However, this plan was unfortunately upended. The rocket… [+3186 chars]
When you think of intelligent people, Albert Einstein may be the first name to come to mind. Known as one of historys greatest geniuses, he fascinated the world with his many contributions to science… [+11547 chars]
