Maine Students to Speak with NASA Astronauts Aboard Space Station

Students from Maine will have an opportunity next week to talk with NASA astronauts aboard the…

ISS crew blast off after long quarantine

Traditional fanfare is abandoned as a team head for the International Space Station. Click…

A plant defense metabolite specifically suppresses virulence of pathogenic bacteria

When attacked by pathogenic microbes, plants protect themselves by deploying numerous secondary metabolites inhibitory to the…

Researchers find different evolutionary pathways for two subtypes of contact binaries

Secondary components of W UMa-type contact binaries exhibit an excess in radius and luminosity. Based on…

Risk aversion as a survival strategy in ants

Ants are excellent navigators and always find their way back to the nest. But how do…

Where is Bepi?

Where is Bepi? Explore the journey of ESA’s Mercury mission Click here for…

Sliding walls – a new paradigm for microfluidic devices

A research team recently developed “sliding walls” as a new technique for fluid control in microfluidic…

Hormone produced in starved leaves stimulates roots to take up nitrogen

Nagoya University researchers have found that in response to the nitrogen demand of leaves, plants produce…

Scientists use the Tokyo Skytree to test Einstein's theory of general relativity

In another verification of the validity of Einstein’s theory of general relativity, published in Nature Photonics,…

Fungus application thwarts major soybean pest, study finds

The soybean cyst nematode sucks the nutrients out of soybean roots, causing more than $1 billion…