The rocks on the surface of Mars could offer revealing clues about whether the Red Planet was ever habitable enough to support life. To find out, the Canadian Space Agency, as part of the NASA-led M… [+5442 chars]
The University of New South Wales researchers discovered a transposable element can control the immune system to favor host survival following virus infection, and they posit the gene has probably be… [+1658 chars]
by Gesine Steiner, Museum für Naturkunde - Leibniz-Institut für Evolutions- und Biodiversitätsforschung Scientists from the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, together with colleagues from the U.S. and Au… [+4552 chars]
The 3D mathematical model created by Nobel Prize-winning physicist Erwin Schrödinger, along with other researchers, and used for more than 100 years to describe how our eyes distinguish colours, has … [+1997 chars]
Australian scientists are confident they have unearthed strong evidence that the Earth's continents were formed by the impact of massive meteorites more than 3 billion years ago. Their findings, publ… [+1503 chars]
A team of scientists from Georgia Tech say they've built a robot that can move without anything to push against - a discovery that seems to violate the law of conservation momentum. The researchers… [+3897 chars]
The sky turns dark, a heavy rain falls and a bolt of lightning crackles through the air. But instead of striking down toward the ground, or zipping sideways between clouds, this lightning bolt does s… [+3934 chars]
In the beginning… The first words of the book of Genesis make a declarative statement. God created Heaven and Earth, and thus begins the cosmic story. While not all creation myths have an act of beg… [+4213 chars]
Antarctica's coastal glaciers are shedding icebergs far more rapidly than nature can replenish the crumbling ice, doubling previous estimates of losses from the world's largest ice sheet over the pas… [+2808 chars]
According to new research from Binghamton University, rising temperatures in the Pacific Northwest have caused some insect species to expand their range into more northern oak savannas. A collage of… [+5598 chars]
A meteorite on Earth holds new evidence that asteroids do indeed mysteriously spit out pebbles, a new study finds. In 2019, NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft discovered a strange new phenomenon when the … [+5173 chars]
NASA's Perseverance rover has captured a mysterious, stringlike material on the surface of Mars. Turns out – it was likely just trash discarded there by the rover itself. In a blog post last week b… [+1664 chars]
