Back on all fours—Ronda the dog's pioneering prosthetic surgery

Ronda seemed doomed. The six-year-old French mastiff had developed a tumour on her paw that required…

Researchers visualize bacteria motor in first step toward human-produced electrical energy

Humans, one day, may be able to produce their own electrical energy in the same way…

Huge Earth-like worlds could host reservoirs of water deep underground

Minerals containing water can exist at much higher pressures than we knew, so they could be…

Illinois researcher's theory of pore-scale transport to enable improved flow batteries

Redox flow batteries are an emerging technology for electrochemical energy storage that could help enhance the…

Growing length of manifestos casts new light on electioneering history

From a modest 150 words to the length of a children’s book—the number of words used…

Escher's angels and demons woodcut predicts how matter deforms

Dutch artist M.C. Escher’s most famous drawing, “Circle Limit IV (Heaven and Hell)”, shows angels and…

Researchers uncover critical metabolic switch for inflammatory diseases

A research team in Trinity College Dublin has uncovered a critical role for a protein called…

A Dance That Stops 2 of Neptune’s Moons From Colliding

Astronomers detected an orbital resonance between the two innermost satellites of the mysterious ice giant planet. …

PIA23564: Terra Sabaea Dune

           Target: Mars Mission:  2001 Mars Odyssey Instrument:  THEMIS Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU Click here…

ISS Daily Summary Report – 11/21/2019

AMS-02 (Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer) EVA Preparation: The crew continued preparation for the AMS repair EVAs completing…