Theres nothing quite so dramatic and inspirational as a scientific breakthrough. But what happens when different groups of scientists cant seem to agree on the science? DeepMind, an Alphabet researc… [+7285 chars]
Unlike Earth, Europa’s ocean lies below a shell of ice probably 15 to 25 kilometers thick. The snow within the ocean floats upwards onto inverted ice peaks and submerged ravines. On Earth, the bizar… [+3094 chars]
Piles of ice-free, snow-like ice under the Antarctic ice shelf. According to research from UT Austin, Europa’s icy crust could be made of the same material. Image source: Helen Glazer 2015, from the … [+4470 chars]
An international team of researchers came up with a plasma-based way to produce and separate oxygen within the Martian environment. It's a complementary approach to NASA's Mars Oxygen In-Situ Resourc… [+3050 chars]
The core of NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft has taken center stage in the Spacecraft Assembly Facility at the agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California. Standing 10 feet (3 meters) h… [+3966 chars]
Water may have been brought to Earth by asteroids from the outer edges of the solar system, scientists said after analyzing rare samples collected on a six-year Japanese space mission. In a quest to… [+2647 chars]
On July 26, in a clean room at the Northrop Grumman facility in Gilbert, Arizona, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Joint Polar Satellite System-2 (JPSS-2) let out several loud po… [+3328 chars]
Scientists from the Karolinska Institute in Sweden and the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences report that spider silk proteins can be fused to biologically active proteins and be converted i… [+4206 chars]
The genomics world has no shortage of visualization tools. But as new methods and data types emerge, existing techniques can struggle to cope. Now, a tool known as Gosling allows bioinformaticians to… [+6863 chars]
High resolution images of microscopic samples can be obtained experimentally using Scanning Electron Transmission Microscopy (STEM). It is an effective method for examining the intricate structure of… [+7168 chars]
63 with 46 posters participating Of all the species that humanity has wiped off the face of the Earth, the thylacine is possibly the most tragic loss. A wolf-sized marsupial sometimes called the Tas… [+6008 chars]
Electrons flowing in vortices Top: Schematic experimental layout showing samples of Au (a) and WTe2 (b) together with the device used to measure current flow. Bottom: Normalized current densities mea… [+4339 chars]
