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Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have found the most distant star ever discovered.…
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Researchers at Case Western Reserve University are developing atomically thin “drumheads” able to receive and…
Swansea University Egyptology lecturer Dr. Ken Griffin has found a depiction of one of the…
In the search for extraterrestrial life, scientists have turned over all sorts of rocks. Mars,…
NASA is investing in technology concepts that include meteoroid impact detection, space telescope swarms, and small…
A series of six articles appearing in the March issue of The Journals of Gerontology, Series A:…
By studying bacteria and yeast, researchers at MIT have discovered that vastly different types of…
As part of an effort to identify distant planets hospitable to life, NASA has established…
A Yale-led research team developed a new RNA therapy, delivered through the nose, to treat…
The discovery of an exoplanet has most often resulted from the monitoring of a star’s…
NASA has produced the first three-dimensional numerical model of melting snowflakes in the atmosphere. Developed…
A new 53 million-year-old insect fossil called a scorpionfly discovered at B.C.’s McAbee fossil bed…
The slow fade of radioactive elements following a supernova allows astrophysicists to study them at…
In individuals with lupus, immune cells attack the body’s own tissue and organs as if…