NASA astronaut Bob Hines took to Twitter to share photographs taken of Earth from the International Space Station (ISS) on Wednesday, August 17th. Hines shared a collection of four photos from a lar… [+1410 chars]
Settlements on the Moon have a certain poetic appeal, but scientists have long understood the complications required to achieve this goal. Lack of oxygen, cosmic radiation, and temperature extremes a… [+4799 chars]
Our Sun is nearly 4.57 billion years old and is currently in the middle of its life cycle. But as all good things must come to an end, the eventual extinction of the Sun is unstoppable. Now, a new st… [+1627 chars]
On day six it was time for our first traverse away from the Haughton-Mars Project base on Devon Island in the Arctic. The team had checked out on the ATVs on relatively tame terrain; this would inv… [+6865 chars]
Obscured by a cloud: the bottom panel shows a time series of the expected ~400-day pulsation in the brightness of Betelgeuse (blue dashes) as well as the measured brightness (orange line). The top pa… [+5774 chars]
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Astronomers at Western Sydney University have discovered one of the biggest black hole jets in the sky. Spanning more than a million light years from end to end, the jet shoots away from a black hol… [+3605 chars]
A new study led by the University of Texas at Austin and the University of Chicago has found that acts of kindness can have a stronger impact on their recipients than expected. Although givers often … [+2208 chars]
<li>Feller, A., Machemer, K., Braun, E. L. & Grotewold, E. Evolutionary and comparative analysis of MYB and bHLH plant transcription factors. Plant J.66, 94116 (2011). CAS PubMed Article … [+10330 chars]
A handwritten document thought to have been penned by Galileo Galilei is actually a forgery, the University of Michigan has announced. The single piece of paper was a jewel of the collection of the… [+3401 chars]
Settlements on the Moon have a certain poetic appeal, but scientists have long understood the complications required to achieve this goal. Lack of oxygen, cosmic radiation, and temperature extremes a… [+4799 chars]
Newswise — Likely to survive in the oral cavity, bacteria evolved to divide along their longitudinal axis without parting from one another. A research team co-led by environmental cell biologist Silv… [+3857 chars]
