James Webb Space Telescope emerges successfully from final thermal vacuum test

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has successfully cleared another critical testing milestone, taking this ambitious observatory…

Uncovering microgel mysteries

Researchers at Shinshu University successfully recorded previously unexplained behavior of hydrogel microspheres (microgels) using a newly…

Bacteria's protein quality control agent offers insight into origins of life

May 30—Our cells’ process for transforming genes into useful proteins works much like an automobile factory’s…

PIA23254: Terra Sabaea – False Color

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

Swapping water for CO2 could make fracking greener and more effective

Scientists at the Chinese Academy of Sciences and China University of Petroleum (Beijing) have demonstrated that…

NICER’s Night Moves Trace the X-ray Sky

This is a map of the entire sky in X-rays recorded by NASA’s Neutron star Interior…

A new mechanism for accessing damaged DNA

UV light damages the DNA of skin cells, which can lead to skin cancer. But this…

Church, couch, couple: Social psychological connections between people and physical space

Societies and people have reshaped the world many times over. From building cities and communities that…

Resistance to Fusarium head blight holding in Illinois, study says

Illinois wheat growers, take heart. A new University of Illinois study shows no evidence of a…

Rosalind Franklin: Mars rover control centre opens

Day-to-day operation of the Rosalind Franklin Mars rover will be run out of a facility in…