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 s… [+5255 chars]
For ages, researchers have pondered the mystery of why, kilo for kilo, larger animals consume less food and expend less energy than smaller ones. Why can a gigantic baleen whale survive on a daily d… [+3951 chars]
<li>Crespo-Otero, R. & Barbatti, M. Recent advances and perspectives on nonadiabatic mixed quantumclassical dynamics. Chem. Rev.118, 70267068 (2018). A review article that presents advances in NA… [+1380 chars]
The first mutation of the wingless gene was found by accident in Drosophila in the 1970s, following the observation of flies that did not possess wings, hence its name. Fifteen years after its discov… [+3540 chars]
A custom-built test chamber for a new NASA space telescope has arrived at Caltech in Pasadena to help ready the spacecraft for launch in 2025. The Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe,… [+2237 chars]
Image: NASA/ JPL Launched nearly 45 years ago, the Voyager capsules have about three million times less memory than modern cell phones and transmit data about 38,000 times slower than a 5G internet … [+2463 chars]
At 6:28am EDT on 21 August 1972, NASAs Copernicus satellite, the heaviest and most complex space telescope of its time, lit up the sky as it ascended into orbit from Launch Complex 36B at what is now… [+8937 chars]
Scientists have discovered a new dinosaur fossil that looks like an armored T-Rex. The new fossils were discovered in the Candeleros Formation in Argentina. Scientists have named this new dinosaur Ja… [+2297 chars]
Chirality describes a molecule that can't be superimposed on its own mirror image. Two geometrically different chiral molecules of the same formula, distinguished by the R- and S- configuration, exhi… [+4578 chars]
At the centre of the NGC 4424 galaxy is a monstrous black hole estimated to be in the mass range of between 60,000 and 100,000 suns. NGC 4424 is located at a distance of 54 million light years in the… [+2155 chars]
<li>Kinsella, R. L. et al. Perspectives and advances in the understanding of tuberculosis. Annu. Rev. Pathol.16, 377408 (2021). This is a Review of tuberculosis. CAS Article Google Scholar </… [+1046 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]
