‘Great Valley’ Provides More Evidence That Mercury is Shrinking
A newly discovered “great valley” in the southern hemisphere of Mercury provides more evidence that the small planet closest to the sun is shrinking. Scientists…
A newly discovered “great valley” in the southern hemisphere of Mercury provides more evidence that the small planet closest to the sun is shrinking. Scientists…
Researchers at MIT have determined the structure of a bacterial enzyme that can produce biodegradable plastics, an advance that could help chemical engineers tweak the…
Scientists at MIT have developed a new catalyst material that provides design principles for producing fuels from carbon dioxide emissions. The findings suggest a route…
New research from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics reveals that the star formation in GASS 3505 is very weak, less than about 0.1 solar masses…
Researchers from Yale University have unveiled CertiKOS, the world’s first operating system that runs on multi-core processors and shields against cyber-attacks. Scientists believe this could…
A team of chemists from Yale University have developed a framework for designing electricity-powered molecular catalysts that may prove vital for a new generation of…
In this newly released image from the Cassini Spacecraft you can see Saturn’s north polar region, which somewhat resemble the brushwork in a watercolor painting….
This newly released Hubble image shows irregular dwarf galaxy NGC 4789A, which is located in the constellation of Coma Berenices. It certainly lives up to…
New research from Yale University shows that a drug that blocks or inhibits the AIM2 pathway could potentially limit the deleterious side effect of chemotherapy…
Don’t miss the upcoming supermoon on Monday, November 14. It will be the closest full moon to Earth since 1948 and we won’t see another…
By combining data from Chandra, VLT, and several other telescopes, astronomers reveal that the dimming of Markarian 1018 arises from the black hole at the…
Using NASA’s Spitzer and Swift Space Telescopes, astronomers discovered a brown dwarf when it and its star passed between Earth and a much more distant…
A newly published study from the Max Planck Institute reveals what would happen if an electric current no longer flowed, but trickled instead. What would…
Using data from the SPHERE instrument mounted on ESO’s Very Large Telescope, astronomers reveal protoplanetary discs being shaped by newborn planets. Sharp new observations have…
This newly released NASA image shows wind-carved rock on the surface of Mars. The distinctively fluted surface and elongated hills in this image in Medusae…
A team of researchers has isolated a human monoclonal antibody that in a mouse model “markedly reduced” infection by the Zika virus. The antibody, called…
New research from Yale University shows that the entire brain is disrupted for 10 seconds or more at a time in absence seizures. Scientists believed…
A newly developed immunization strategy may someday offer an alternative to antibiotics against microbes that invade the gastrointestinal tract. Researchers from MIT and the University…