Land rights essential to protect biodiversity and indigenous cultures

New research argues that legally protected large territories in Brazil are crucial to protect biodiversity and…

NASA Funds Four Research Projects on COVID-19 Impacts

NASA’s Earth Science Division is supporting the science community as it investigates the many changes this…

ESA spacecraft might accidentally fly through the tail of a comet

The European Space Agency’s Solar Orbiter spacecraft was launched earlier this year to study the sun,…

A disease trigger for pancreatitis has been identified

One factor contributing to the development of pancreatitis lies in mutations within a cell membrane ion…

Pofatu: A new database for geochemical 'fingerprints' of artefacts

Due to the improvement and increased use of geochemical fingerprinting techniques during the last 25 years,…

Missing component of innate immune signaling identified

Scientists have identified a new key element of the multi-component machinery responsible for sorting out the…

ISS Daily Summary Report – 5/13/2020

Payloads Astrobee mapping:  The crew assisted with the collection of calibration, localization and mobility data inside…

PIA23908: Nili Fossae

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

Early humans in China innovated technology to adapt to climate change one million years ago

To assess the degree to which early stone tool using hominins modified their tool manufacturing behaviours…

Organic small molecule hole-transporting layers toward efficient p-i-n perovskite solar cells

Perovskite solar cells (pero-SCs) show great potential in photoelectric fields due to high power conversion efficiency…