Nutrient-rich ash from an enormous flare-up of volcanic eruptions toward the end of the dinosaurs’…
Using Hyper Suprime-Cam (HSC) mounted on the Subaru Telescope, astronomers have identified nearly 200 “protoclusters,”…
Astronomers have put NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope on an Indiana Jones-type quest to uncover an…
The gastric bacterium H. pylori colonizes the stomachs of around half the human population and…
Viruses are intracellular parasites that cause disease by infecting the cells in the body and,…
Flows of molten metal can generate magnetic fields. This so-called dynamo effect creates cosmic magnetic…
Did you know that the tools used for analyzing relationships between social network users or…
Imagine a year in Africa where summer never arrives. The sky takes on a gray…
Scientists report the existence of 15 new planets — including one ‘super-Earth’ that could harbor…
Pharmaceutical companies once considered a protein called p38 a very attractive target for treating rheumatoid…
Cassini captured this striking view of Saturn’s moon Dione on July 23, 2012. Dione is…
This stunning image from Hubble shows the majestic galaxy NGC 1015, found nestled within the…
In a world-first, an ESA-led team has built and fired an electric thruster to ingest…
A UNLV scientist has discovered the first direct evidence that fluid water pockets may exist…
A team of researchers from the College of Engineering at Texas A&M University have developed…
Ocean conditions off most of the U.S. West Coast are returning roughly to average, after…
Water is crucial for life, but how do you make water? Cooking up some H2O…
A new experiment by Elizabeth Swanner evaluating the reduction of iron in prehistoric oceans may…