South Korea launched its first robotic mission to the Moon last week, as a SpaceX Falcon 9 successfully launched the Danuri Lunar Pathfinder mission on August 4, 2022, from Floridas Cape Canaveral … [+2320 chars]
A bacterial species closely related to deadly citrus greening disease is rapidly evolving its ability to infect insect hosts, and possibly plants as well. The newly identified species belongs to Lib… [+3709 chars]
Astronomers have conducted photometric and spectroscopic observations of a binary system known as TIC 60040774. Results of the observational campaign shed more light on the properties of this system,… [+3359 chars]
An international research team led by the University of Göttingen has detected novel quantum effects in high-precision studies of natural double-layer graphene and has interpreted them together with … [+3329 chars]
They say a picture is worth a thousand words. And I believe that a piece of music can be as well. Even though we cant hear space phenomena, we can turn its images into music, forming a new and totall… [+1623 chars]
The arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis (AMS) is one of the most ancient and broadly occurring mutualistic associations between plants and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF). This intimate relationship … [+1622 chars]
TOKYO -- A sample of material taken from an asteroid by Japan's Hayabusa2 probe offers a clue to how organic matter found in meteorites on Earth could have survived without burning up in the atmosphe… [+274 chars]
<li>Rising, A. & Johansson, J. Toward spinning artificial spider silk. Nat. Chem. Biol.11, 309315 (2015). CAS PubMed Article Google Scholar </li><li>Babb, P. L. et al. The Nephila clav… [+18119 chars]
"It has an unusually high amount of stars being born and has been used by astronomers as a laboratory to better understand the fascinating phenomena of star formation," the ESO explains. An example … [+756 chars]
A poison frog (Dendrobates tinctorius) sits on a leaf in the tropical rainforest. (Image credit: Dirk Ercken via Alamy Stock Photo) It's one of the oldest questions tackled by naturalists: Why do t… [+6363 chars]
Enlarge/ Stacey Morgan and her four children watch Drew Morgan launch in July 2019. 33 with 28 posters participating One of the very first things that a new NASA astronaut learns is that there is n… [+4808 chars]
High resolution, high sensitivity measurements of adhesion forces can potentially transform many applications. A newly developed Fiber-Tip Microforce Sensor (FTMS) by Professor Yiping Wang and collea… [+5583 chars]