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This HiRISE image from NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) captures a new, dated (within about…
These days, many retailers and manufacturers are tracking their products using RFID, or radio-frequency identification…
Scientists have identified a key enhancer of Sox9 — a gene critical for male sex…
We’ve all heard about the search for life on other planets, but what about looking…
A team of Japanese scientists led by Masahiro Kayama of Tohoku University’s Frontier Research Institute…
About 99 million years ago, a tiny juvenile frog in present-day Myanmar was suddenly trapped…
In the new quantum information technologies, fragile quantum states have to be transferred between distant…
Researchers at Oregon State University have confirmed that last fall’s union of two neutron stars…
Bolometers, devices that monitor electromagnetic radiation through heating of an absorbing material, are used by…
MIT engineers have developed a probiotic mix of natural and engineered bacteria to diagnose and…
Science operations for NASA’s Opportunity rover have been temporarily suspended as it waits out a…
Over the past several years, the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) has transformed our understanding…
New research review provides insights into the continent’s response to climate warming. Scientists from the…
Brown tissue whitening causes cell death, inflammation There’s more than one type of fat cell.…
A new analysis of data from NASA’s Dawn mission suggests that organic matter may exist…
Two independent teams of astronomers have used ALMA to uncover convincing evidence that three young…
NASA will host a media teleconference at 1:30 p.m. EDT Wednesday, June 13, to discuss…