Saildrone is first to circumnavigate Antarctica, in search for carbon dioxide

It was an audacious idea: To send an unmanned saildrone on a 13,670-nautical-mile journey around Antarctica…

Thyroid hormone can alter color vision in zebrafish, potentially in humans

Exposure to thyroid hormone can alter eye function in zebrafish, a result with implications for curing…

Space travel might fry your brain, causing permanent learning and memory problems

During the course of a deep space mission, astronauts are routinely in various degrees of peril.…

Prandtl-D’s Next Mission: Smithsonian Institution, California Science Center

It’s not every day that a research aircraft may possibly change the way we build future…

New study could reset how scientists view sex determination in painted turtle populations

A new study from Iowa State University scientists could flip the established framework for how scientists…

Ancient soil provides a window to the past

Noelle Purcell, a senior in the Columbian College of Arts and Science, spent the first half…

NASA 'optometrists' verify Mars 2020 rover's 20/20 vision

Equipped with visionary science instruments, the Mars 2020 rover underwent an “eye” exam after several cameras…

New finds for Mars rover, seven years after landing

NASA’s Curiosity rover has come a long way since touching down on Mars seven years ago.…

New study traces Io's volcanic tides

Hundreds of volcanoes pockmark the surface of Io, the third largest of Jupiter’s 78 known moons,…

Repeating outflows of hot wind found close to black hole

An international team of astrophysicists from Southampton, Oxford and South Africa have detected a very hot,…