The Space Shuttle’s Last Flight | An End. A New Beginning. [Video]
Ten years ago, the last shuttle mission (STS-135) dropped out of the predawn darkness and landed at Kennedy’s Shuttle Landing Facility Runway 15 for the…
Ten years ago, the last shuttle mission (STS-135) dropped out of the predawn darkness and landed at Kennedy’s Shuttle Landing Facility Runway 15 for the…
DeepMind and EMBL release the most complete database of predicted 3D structures of human proteins. Partners use AlphaFold, the AI system recognized last year as…
Most of the viruses were previously unknown to humans, study finds. Scientists who study glacier ice have found viruses nearly 15,000 years old in two…
Geneticists from Trinity College Dublin have discovered how a specific genetic mutation called H3K27M causes a devastating, incurable childhood cancer, known as diffuse midline glioma…
Network of wildlife rehabilitation organizations helps track emerging threats. From domoic acid poisoning in seabirds to canine distemper in raccoons, wildlife face a variety of…
Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), in which the European Southern Observatory (ESO) is a partner, astronomers have unambiguously detected the presence of a…
The six-wheeler’s science campaign has laid the groundwork for the mission’s next major milestone. NASA is making final preparations for its Perseverance Mars rover to…
UCSF Cardiology researchers report no link between coffee consumption and arrhythmia. In the largest study of its kind, an investigation by UC San Francisco has…
To quickly express learning and memory genes, brain cells snap both strands of DNA in many more places and cell types than previously realized, a…
New findings might help inform the design of more powerful MRI machines or robust quantum computers. MIT physicists have observed signs of a rare type…
Any life identified on planets orbiting white dwarf stars almost certainly evolved after the star’s death, says a new study led by the University of…
Researchers at the RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research (BDR) have succeeded in creating the first genetically engineered marsupial. This study, published in the scientific…
After testing a bristling array of instruments on its robotic arm, NASA’s latest Mars rover gets down to business: probing rocks and dust for evidence…
Contrary to what popular media portrays, we actually don’t know much about what sharks eat. Even less is known about how they digest their food,…
Durham, Toronto, and Princeton Universities have teamed up with NASA and the Canadian Space Agency to build a new kind of astronomical telescope. SuperBIT flies…
A serendipitous flythrough of the tail of a disintegrated comet has offered scientists a unique opportunity to study these remarkable structures, in new research presented…
A coronavirus related to the virus that causes COVID-19 in humans has been found in UK horseshoe bats – according to new collaborative research from…
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope is back in business, exploring the universe near and far. The science instruments have returned to full operation, following recovery from…