Summer issue of OSCAR News now available

E-members of AMSAT-UK can now download the June 2020 edition of OSCAR News, issue 230, here.…

First evidence of snake-like venom glands found in amphibians

Caecilians are limbless amphibians that can be easily mistaken for snakes. Though caecilians are only distantly…

Scientific 'red flag' reveals new clues about our galaxy

By determining how much energy permeates the center of the Milky Way, researchers have moved closer…

Scientific 'red flag' reveals new clues about our galaxy

Figuring out how much energy permeates the center of the Milky Way—a discovery reported in the…

PIA23995: Outflow Channels

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

'Fang'tastic: Biologists report snake-like dental glands in amphibians

Utah State University biologist Edmund ‘Butch’ Brodie, Jr. and colleagues from São Paulo’s Butantan Institute report…

ESA Startup competition announces four winners

The four winners of ESA’s Startup competition are using space to solve problems on Earth. Each…

Toward super-fast motion of vortices in superconductors

An international team of scientists from Austria, Germany, and Ukraine has found a new superconducting system…

India approves purchase of 33 Russian fighter jets

DefenceTalk India’s defence ministry Thursday signed off on the purchase of 33 Russian fighter jets and…

Histone H3-H4 tetramer found to be a copper reductase enzyme

A team of researchers at the University of California has found that the histone H3-H4 tetramer…