ByMichael Carlowicz, NASA Earth ObservatoryAugust 19, 2022 1992 2022 Global mean sea level has risen 101 millimeters (3.98 inches) since 1992, and it continues to do so at 3.9 mm (0.15 inches) per … [+5467 chars]
Impacts affect the porosity and structure of moons and planets more dramatically than scientists suspected, increasing their potential habitability for life. Studying how those impacts affect planeta… [+2800 chars]
Ingenuity at Airfield D: This image of NASAs Ingenuity Mars Helicopter was taken by the Mastcam-Z instrument of the Perseverance rover on June 15, 2021, the 114th Martian day, or sol, of the mission.… [+3028 chars]
Years of work by developmental biologists from Trinity College Dublin, working with colleagues at the University of Edinburgh's MRC Human Genetics Unit, has yielded a resource that will help research… [+3930 chars]
Conventional dental photography technology has had a limitation in using inconvenient tools such as mirrors and cheek retractors. Dentists require basic teeth images from various angles, such as righ… [+3308 chars]
This story is part of Welcome to Mars, our series exploring the red planet. Anyone who has ever had a pesky pet hair stuck to their clothes can sympathize with the situation NASA's Perseverance Mar… [+2036 chars]
Comment on this story NASA has yet to launch the rocket that would carry astronauts to the moon, and it hasnt yet selected the crew that would explore the lunar surface as part of its Artemis progra… [+4501 chars]
Researchers from the Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have made progress in the preparation of mixture-based quarter-wave plate laser beam splitter (… [+2874 chars]
The asteroid Ryugu is located roughly 300 million kilometers from Earth. It completes an orbit around the Sun every 16 months, and many believe an asteroid like it helped fuel the origin of water on … [+2430 chars]
image: External views of mouse embryos after 10.5 days of embryonic development. The embryos on the left show a technique for revealing where individual genes are expressed (Wnt1, Wnt5a and Wnt11). T… [+4436 chars]
A new molecular system records the expression of different genes over time in a cells DNA, making it possible to reconstruct the order of biological events within individual cells. The tool could exp… [+4542 chars]
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