ByOsaka UniversityAugust 22, 2022 Parkinsons disease is a brain disorder that results in unintentional or uncontrolled movements including trembling, stiffness, and issues with balance and coordinat… [+4163 chars]
Synonymous mutations have long been thought to have relatively no effect. A new study finds that most “silent” mutations are harmful rather than neutral. Marshall Nirenberg, A University of Michiga… [+4544 chars]
The timing and intensity of the seasons shapes life all around us, including tool use by birds, the evolutionary diversification of giraffes, and the behaviour of our close primate relatives. Some … [+5149 chars]
Similar to this Youtube image, a straight line of bright dots resembling stars moved slowly across Quinte's night sky shortly after sunset Saturday catching the attention of onlookers enjoying the ou… [+3421 chars]
To put it simply, the universe's most massive known star is less massive than scientists once believed. But even docked a few levels, this staggering ball of gas is still the universe's most massive … [+5420 chars]
By observing the field of globular cluster Palomar 2 with the Indian Astronomical Observatory (IAO), astronomers have discovered 32 new variable stars. The newfound variables are mostly RR Lyrae star… [+3218 chars]
Astronomers frequently observe carbon monoxide in planetary nurseries. The compound is ultra-bright and extremely common in protoplanetary disksregions of dust and gas where planets form around young… [+4224 chars]
A black hole is usually where information goes to disappearbut scientists may have found a trick to use its last moments to tell us about the history of the universe. In a new study, two astrophysic… [+5135 chars]
Scientists say that their attempts to find exoplanets that could host life — basically, another Earth — could be obscured by what they refer to as planetary “photobombers,” which could dramatically a… [+3836 chars]
The dazzling beauty of a snowflake is testament to the amazing shapes water can form below freezing point. Placed under pressure, the elegant dance of the H2O molecule contorts into something bizarr… [+3847 chars]
Despite loads of circumstantial evidence for the existence of dark matter — the mysterious form of matter that dominates galaxies and clusters — astronomers have yet to make direct observations of i… [+5947 chars]
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]
