Planets like Proxima Centauri b experience tides hundreds of times stronger than ones that move Earths oceans twice a day. The force of those tides also tugs on the planets atmosphere, but a recent … [+6277 chars]
This article is from Les Indispensables de Sciences et Avenir Issue 210, dated July/September 2022. Straight lines that seem to curve to us, serpents that seem to spin in a still image, a voice that… [+8312 chars]
The ocean floor is famously less explored than the surface of Mars. And when our team of scientists recently mapped the seabed, and ancient sediments beneath, we discovered what looks like an asteroi… [+6926 chars]
"Cas13 can degrade both target and non-target RNAs at random," making it difficult to design experiments and interpret results when using Cas13, the researchers explained on the CAS website. But "th… [+1015 chars]
While for decades Mars has been the planet outside Earth that has arguably received the most attention, in recent years, planetary scientists have been setting their sites on our other neighbor: Venu… [+2321 chars]
You must be knowing about planets in our solar system, one of them being the planet on which we live- Earth. But do you know that NASA has confirmed more than 5,000 planets beyond our solar system, s… [+2364 chars]
According to chemists, atoms are the building blocks of matter. This hypothesis, which is now proven, was born several centuries ago. Ancient thinkers believed that atoms were indivisible. Moreover,… [+5606 chars]
On June 13, the third major data release from the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Gaia mission revealed details about the past and future of our solar system’s star, the Sun, by using data collected by… [+7292 chars]
The metabolic theory posits that physical constraints on energy uptake and allocation drive biological processes. This theory predicts broad ecological patterns such as the observed allometric scalin… [+2649 chars]
While for decades Mars has been the planet outside Earth that has arguably received the most attention, in recent years, planetary scientists have been setting their sites on our other neighbor: Venu… [+2321 chars]
The winners of the BMC Ecology and Evolutionphotography competition have just been announced. This year's contest has served up a spectacular collection of images that capture nature in action, as we… [+4021 chars]
Jupiter as captured by NASA's Juno spacecraft on its 44th perijove on August 17, 2022 and ... [+] post-processed by Kevin M. Gill. NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Kevin M. Gill © CC BY On Wednesday las… [+3685 chars]
