It's time to take a deep dive into the universe. A new video released by the James Webb Space Telescope collaboration shows an epic zoom-in through stars and other objects to land upon a spectacular… [+2252 chars]
ByNASAAugust 9, 2022 The International Space Station is pictured from the SpaceX Crew Dragon Endeavour during a fly around of the orbiting lab that took place following its undocking from the Harmon… [+3738 chars]
Approximately 1,800 miles beneath our feet, swirling liquid iron in the Earth's outer core generates the planet's protective magnetic field. The magnetic field is invisible but is vital for life on E… [+3942 chars]
Divergence and diversity across elevations and transects To study adaptation to altitude in H. erato and H. melpomene, we used whole-genome data from 518 re-sequenced individuals, 444 of which were … [+39422 chars]
When racehorses enter training at about 2 years old, they can develop tiny stress fractures and new bone formations in their legs. This condition, called bucked shin, occurs in about 70% of the anima… [+2617 chars]
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Stargazers are in for a treat this week as the Perseid meteor shower is set to light up the sky between August 11 and 13. It is one of the best meteor shower treats for skywatchers that stretches fro… [+1442 chars]
One of the prime objectives of the new James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is to study very distant galaxies, galaxies that are too far away to be effectively observed prior to the JWST. It isnt so muc… [+5265 chars]
Writing in an August 9 article in the journal Cell Reports, the scientists make the case that their computer models are the first to combine data sets from different types of lab experiments, providi… [+1621 chars]
About 15 years ago, a group of researchers discovered mutant zebrafish. The eyes of these zebrafish did not develop correctly, resulting in significantly smaller eyes than those of wild zebrafish. No… [+4077 chars]
The ability of a plant to re-direct the development of its shoots in the direction of a light source is known as phototropism. An international team is now one step closer to explaining a central ob… [+4825 chars]
Every 60 seconds the equivalent of a truckload of plastic enters the global ocean. Where does it end up? Right now, researchers simply don't know. But in a bid to help find out, an ESA-led project de… [+3426 chars]
