A new family of enzymes has been discovered which paves the way to convert plant…
Sitting between Mars and Jupiter, the doughnut-shaped asteroid belt is packed full of rocky bodies…
Researchers at the University of Bonn and the University of California at Irvine used sophisticated…
How large is a neutron star? Previous estimates varied from eight to sixteen kilometers. Astrophysicists…
In the last decade we have discovered thousands of planets outside our solar system and…
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, the most ambitious and complex space observatory ever built, will…
In the center of the galaxy OJ 287, there is one active, super-mass-rich black hole.…
Researchers at Oregon State University and Oregon Health & Science University are working on a…
Our brains are famously flexible, or “plastic,” because neurons can do new things by forging…
This rich and dense smattering of stars is a massive globular cluster, a gravitationally-bound collection…
A new study by the Yale School of Public Health and partner institutions is the…
A Delaware team including Erin Crowgey, Ph.D., associate director of Bioinformatics with Nemours Biomedical Research,…
Astronomical masers (the radio wavelength analogs of lasers) were first identified in space over fifty…
After a nearly twenty-year-long game of cosmic hide-and-seek, astronomers using ESA’s XMM-Newton space observatory have…
This image captures swirling cloud belts and tumultuous vortices within Jupiter’s northern hemisphere. NASA’s Juno…
Before NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft flew through the Pluto system in July 2015, many New…
Scientists at MIT and elsewhere have analyzed data from K2, the follow-up mission to NASA’s…
Archaeologists at Lund University in Sweden have found carbonized germinated grains showing that malt was…