Prolonged spaceflight can damage bone structure permanently and age parts of the skeleton prematurely by as much as 10 years, according to a new report. Adapted training programs and certain medicat… [+6010 chars]
Orbital debris from a Russian anti-satellite weapons test is menacing the Starlink satellite constellation, with researchers reporting more than 6,000 close calls with the SpaceX satellites. The ne… [+2860 chars]
From water boiling into steam to ice cubes melting in a glass, we've all seen the phenomenon known as a phase transition in our everyday lives. But there's another type of phase transition that's muc… [+4616 chars]
Silver-colored dust drilled from a rock by NASA's Curiosity rover on July 30, 2015. Analysis of the dust revealed it contained the mineral tridymite, which was very unexpected. (Image credit: NASA/JP… [+5984 chars]
Earth and its Moon are unique in the Solar System. Earth is the only planet with just one moon, and that Moon is pretty influential. In fact, without the Moon, life on Earth may not have emerged, som… [+4363 chars]
Biomedical engineering will help us go beyond the antibiotics, antivirals, and steroids that dominated last centurys medical arsenal. From drug-carrying nanorobots to genetic and tissue engineering, … [+470 chars]
While a supermoon is expected to wash out all but the very brightest of this year's Perseids meteor shower, astronomy experts say if you choose your spot well, you will still be able to enjoy it. Th… [+1762 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]
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]
In 2019, NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft sent back images of a geological phenomenon no one had ever seen before: pebbles were flying off the surface of the asteroid Bennu. The asteroid appeared to be s… [+5531 chars]
Summary: Consciousness can not simply be reduced to neural activity alone, researchers say. A novel study reports the dynamics of consciousness may be understood by a newly developed conceptual and m… [+10281 chars]
A Northwestern University astrophysics team is aiming for the starswell, a dead star, that is. On Aug. 21, the NASA-funded team will launch its "Micro-X" rocket from White Sands Missile Range in sou… [+3922 chars]
