Using Solar Power and Nanoparticles to Make Saltwater Drinkable
Using solar energy and nanoparticles to make saltwater drinkable, researchers from Yale and Rice University have developed a system that could potentially be used off-grid…
Using solar energy and nanoparticles to make saltwater drinkable, researchers from Yale and Rice University have developed a system that could potentially be used off-grid…
This image, captured by the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) on the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, shows the spiral galaxy NGC 5714, about 130 million…
Using state-of-the-art dating techniques researchers of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, have obtained new chronological data for the timing of…
On Sunday, March 25, a new program called “Finding Life in Outer Space” will debut on the Smithsonian Channel. The scientific lead for this program…
The exquisite sharpness of this 2005 image from NASA/ESA’s Hubble Space Telescope has plucked out an underlying population of infant stars embedded in the nebula…
A “game-changing” new antibiotic which is capable of killing superbugs has been successfully synthesized and used to treat an infection for the first time —…
A cloud of gas 300,000 light-years long is arching around the Milky Way, shunted away from two dwarf galaxies orbiting our own. For decades, astronomers…
A MIT study suggests a new method for boosting the growth of blood vessels and muscle. Activating proteins linked to longevity may help to increase…
Diet-induced diabetes, obesity, and heart disease are the leading causes of death worldwide. In their search for novel therapies for these related chronic illnesses, Yale…
Scientists have identified a new species of reptile from prehistoric Connecticut and, boy, does it have a mouth on it. Named Colobops noviportensis, the creature…
According to a new Yale School of Public Health study, the social fabrics of their neighborhoods, including friendships and ideas about masculinity, have a powerful…
On the outskirts of our galaxy, a cosmic tug-of-war is unfolding—and only NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope can see who’s winning. The players are two dwarf…
NASA’s Mars Curiosity rover just hit a new milestone: its two-thousandth Martian day, or sol, on the Red Planet. An image mosaic taken by the…
There is a process at work in most galaxies that affects both the central black hole mass as well as the galaxy’s global velocity structure…
Researchers at Houston Methodist used computer modeling to find an existing investigational drug compound for leukemia patients to treat triple-negative breast cancer once it spreads…
TRAPPIST-1 is an ultra-cool red dwarf star that is slightly larger, but much more massive, than the planet Jupiter, located about 40 light-years from the…
Scientists from Moscow State University (MSU) working in an international team of researchers identified the structure of one of the key regions of telomerase –…
One of the MASTER Global Robotic Net telescopes (MSU) located on Tenerife (Spain, Canary Islands) helped the scientists observe the gamma-ray burst caused by the…