Tracing the evolution of vision

The function of the visual photopigment rhodopsin and its action in the retina to facilitate vision…

Scientists successfully innoculate, grow crops in salt-damaged soil

Researchers may have found a way to reverse falling crop yields caused by increasingly salty farmlands…

PIA23413: Curiosity's 21 Drill Holes on Mars

           Target: Mars Mission:  Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) Instrument:  HiRISE ,  MAHLI Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/Univ. of Arizona…

PIA23412: Mid-2019 Map of NASA's Curiosity Rover Mission

           Target: Mars Mission:  Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) Instrument:  HiRISE Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Univ. of Arizona …

ISS Daily Summary Report – 8/22/2019

60 Soyuz (60S) Uncrewed Launch: 60S launched nominally last night from Baikonur Cosmodrome. Roscosmos currently has…

Amazonian Fires Continue Shrouding South America in Smoke

Smoke from the fires raging in in the Amazon basin is clearly visible across much of…

Early life on Earth limited by enzyme

A single enzyme found in early single-cell life forms could explain why oxygen levels in the…

Maximum mass of lightest neutrino revealed using astronomical big data

The mass of the lightest neutrino, an abundant ‘ghost’ particle found throughout the universe, has been…

Materials scientists build a synthetic system with compartments like real cells

Polymer chemists and materials scientists have achieved some notable advances that mimic Nature, but one of…

Certain metabolites linked to stem cell function in the intestine

Researchers have found that high levels of ketone bodies, molecules produced by the breakdown of fat,…