Agricultural parasite avoids evolutionary arms race, shuts down genes of host plants

A parasitic plant has found a way to circumvent an evolutionary arms race with the host…

Europe powers up for third and fourth Orion spacecraft

Europe will power the NASA spacecraft that take astronauts to a new international outpost and forward…

PIA23597: Crommelin Crater – False Color

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

Pigeons and woolly hats now have exoplanets named after them

More than 100 exoplanets and the stars they orbit have just been officially named by a…

Research team uses crossbows and drones to collect bacteria from whales

As we drew closer to the massive humpback whale, I became painfully aware how small our…

DNA from Stone Age woman obtained 6,000 years on

Ancient DNA extracted from a tooth print in ancient “chewing gum” reveals new clues about our…

ISS Daily Summary Report – 12/17/2019

CBEF-L (Cell Biology Experiment Facility – Left): The crew installed the CBEF-L centrifuge and performed the…

In ancient Scottish tree rings, a cautionary tale on climate, politics and survival

Using old tree rings and archival documents, historians and climate scientists have detailed an extreme cold…

Plant-eating insects disrupt ecosystems and contribute to climate change

A new study from Lund University in Sweden shows that plant-eating insects affect forest ecosystems considerably…

Aussie icon has the koalafications of both marsupials and primates

Spread across the globe, from Central and South America to Japan, non-human primates have a toehold…