Forty-five years ago, on Aug. 20, 1977, NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on a Titan III-Centaur rocket, embarking on a "grand tour" of the solar system that would in… [+7348 chars]
"If we neglect these additional effects, our understanding of the structure of the neutron star as a whole can become deeply biased," added Pratten, the lead author of the paper. LIGO and Virgo Coll… [+1274 chars]
During a recent study, researchers discovered that they can control the stickiness of adhesive bandages by using ultrasound waves and bubbles. This discovery could pave the way for new advances in me… [+2188 chars]
At a time when astronomers around the world are obsessed with new ways of looking at the distant universe, experiments on the International Space Station have given researchers at Cornell University … [+5013 chars]
Some 5,000 lightyears away sits a fiery red nebula in the shape of a beautiful rose. Peering into the night skies will reveal a plethora of shapes and figures that are beyond one's imagination. The … [+3546 chars]
A biotechnology company based in Israel wants to replicate a recent experiment that successfully created an artificial mouse embryo from stem cells only this time with human cells. Scientists at Wei… [+2314 chars]
<li>Bergman, P., Seyedoleslami Esfahani, S. & Engström, A. Drosophila as a model for human diseases-focus on innate immunity in barrier epithelia. Curr. Top. Dev. Biol.121, 2981 (2017). CAS P… [+12098 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]
Our Sun is doomed. Billions of years from now, the Sun will deplete its hydrogen fuel and swell to a red giant before becoming a white dwarf. Its a well-known story, and one astronomer has understo… [+3603 chars]
ByNASAAugust 20, 2022 The SpaceX Dragon cargo craft backs away from the space station moments after undocking from the Harmony modules forward port during an orbital sunrise. Credit: NASA TV At 11:… [+1170 chars]
Within the next decade, several space agencies and commercial space partners will send crewed missions to the Moon. Unlike the “footprints and flags” missions of the Apollo Era, these missions are ai… [+10570 chars]
Launching in 2029, the European Space Agency's Ariel spacecraft, short for Atmospheric Remote-sensing Infrared Exoplanet Large-survey, will perform a large-scale survey of exoplanets - planets outsid… [+1933 chars]
