Asteroid Belts and Their Potential Significance for Life
A newly published study from a team of scientists suggests and explains how asteroid belts may be important both for the existence of life and…
A newly published study from a team of scientists suggests and explains how asteroid belts may be important both for the existence of life and…
Scientists at Stanford University have put together the first solar cell that’s entirely made up of carbon, which is a promising alternative to the expensive…
While to most observers, Antarctica is a barren wasteland, there are many who see it as something completely different. There’s a rich network of rivers…
Scientists at Rice University, in collaboration with Lockheed Martin, are working on next-generation battery technology, reporting the creation of a silicon-based anode that easily achieves…
Nicolas Navin wanted to work out the sequence from individual cancer cells to see how they had mutated and diverged as the cancer grew. Back…
After a decade of research hinting that magnesium supplements could potentially boost your memory and cognitive abilities, it’s finally being put into a small clinical…
Using the Herschel Space Telescope and a method known as raytracing, a team of scientists produced a 3-D map of the dark cloud Barnard 68…
June Arctic snow cover in the Northern Hemisphere dropped by almost 18% per decade over the last 30 years. This drop in snow cover will…
One-third of all human-caused greenhouse gas emissions stem from the global food system, which encompasses the manufacturing of fertilizer, to food storage and packaging. These…
Redheads with fair skin are more susceptible to the damaging effects of the Sun. A new study indicated that the pigment responsible for this coloring…
Titan, the new supercomputer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), may be the most powerful machine on Earth; but this won’t be confirmed for a…
New data from NASA’s Dawn spacecraft shows a close up of the Canuleia Crater on the asteroid Vesta, illustrating the structure of the interior of…
A new study reports that presentiment without any external clues may exist. Researchers from Northwestern University analyzed the results of 26 studies published between 1978…
Emailing biological molecules, using 3D biological printers, might seem like science fiction, but Craig Venter discussed the idea at the Wired Health Conference in New…
The DARPA Robotics Challenge (DRC) has begun and over the next two years teams will compete to develop and test hardware and software designed to…
The reason why some people tend to respond to treatments that have no active ingredients might be down to genetics. A new study indicates that…
Structures in the brains of great sharks are similar to the ones found in humans, and these could be the key to prevent further shark…
Located about 25,000 light-years from Earth in the constellation of Ara, globular cluster NGC 6362 contains many blue stragglers, stars that appear younger and bluer…