New research using data collected by the European Southern Observatory (ESO) has revealed that a…
A newly published study details microbial life on a sand grain: from bulk sediment to…
Biochemical ‘action shots’ with SLAC’s X-ray laser could help scientists develop synthetic enzymes for medicine…
Engineers from MIT have developed a 3D printing technique that uses a new kind of…
Steak or ice cream? To make the choice, the brain assigns a value to each…
University of Bristol research has revealed how cells rebuild their nucleus and organize their genome…
New research shows that Jupiter’s moon Europa could have subduction zones, which could supply chemical…
How a material breaks may be the most important property to consider when designing layered…
The dust that comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko emits into space consists of about one-half of organic molecules.…
These images were taken by ESO’s SPHERE (Spectro-Polarimetric High-contrast Exoplanet REsearch) instrument, installed on ESO’s…
“Two-dimensional materials” — materials deposited in layers that are only a few atoms thick —…
The Voyager team is able to use a set of four backup thrusters, dormant since…
A new study from MIT provides evidence for an alternative timekeeping system that relies on…
A new Yale-led study shows that thyroid hormone therapy significantly resolves fibrosis, or scarring, in…
Don’t be fooled! The subject of this Picture of the Week, ESO 580-49, may seem…
Correction: A follow-up paper by Barth & Stern (2018) has shown that the evidence for…
You are what you eat when it comes to fat, report scientists from McGovern Medical…
A new NASA sea level simulator lets you bury Alaska’s Columbia glacier in snow, and,…