Faster heartbeat helps deer mice to survive at high altitudes

Mice living at high altitudes in the American West carry a genetic variant that increases their…

Failure prognosis: Data science predicts which failures will ultimately succeed

Oprah Winfrey was fired from her first job in television. Steven Spielberg was rejected from film…

Scientists reveal the physics of Jackson Pollock's painting technique

The celebrated painter Jackson Pollock created his most iconic works not with a brush, but by…

The ‘nuclear pasta’ in neutron stars could transform particle physics

 To learn more about the mysteries of quantum chromodynamics, we are probing the universe’s densest stars,…

How to spot Taurus, star clusters and a meteor shower in the night sky

The constellation Taurus is packed with interesting stars. Here’s how to find It, and learn about…

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This week, watch as fact and fiction meet above Victorian England, learn about our worst military…

Apollo collection curator on what Neil Armstrong took to the moon

Teasel Muir-Harmony, curator of the Apollo spacecraft collection, on awesome astronauts, her passion for space history…

Simulations explain giant exoplanets with eccentric, close-in orbits

As planetary systems evolve, gravitational interactions between planets can fling some of them into eccentric elliptical…

Malaria pathogen under the X-ray microscope

Malaria is one of the most threatening infectious diseases in the world. An international team has…

Crab disease poses threat to shellfish stocks

Shore crabs carry parasites that pose a major threat to shellfish stocks. In a new study,…