Astonishing Secret Switch Discovered That Could Revolutionize Heart Attack Treatment
Scientists at the Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute in Sydney have discovered a critical new gene that it is hoped could help human hearts repair…
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Testing Our Fundamental Understanding of the Universe: Muon G-2 Experiment Hints at Mysterious New Physics
Scientists are testing our fundamental understanding of the universe, and there’s much more to discover. What do touch screens, radiation therapy and shrink wrap have…
Mars Didn’t Dry Up in One Go – Martian Climate Cycled Between Dry and Wet Periods
The Perseverance rover has just landed on Mars. Meanwhile, its precursor Curiosity continues to explore the base of Mount Sharp (officially Aeolis Mons), a mountain…
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Completes Final Tour of Asteroid Bennu Before Its 180,000,000 Mile Trip Back to Earth
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx completed its last flyover of Bennu around 6 a.m. EDT (4 a.m. MDT) April 7 and is now slowly drifting away from the…
Mystery About How Particles Behave Outside a Black Hole Photon Sphere Solved With String Theory
A paper by the Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (Kavli IPMU) Director Ooguri Hirosi and Project Researcher Matthew Dodelson on…
Two Currently Available Medications – an Antifungal and an Antidepressant – May Help Protect Against COVID-19
New research published in the British Journal of Pharmacology indicates that two currently available medications — an antifungal drug and an antidepressant — can effectively…
Epic Mars Selfie: NASA’s Perseverance Rover With the Ingenuity Helicopter
NASA’s newest Mars rover used a camera on the end of its robotic arm to snap this shot of itself with the Ingenuity helicopter nearby….
NASA Perseverance Rover’s First Weather Report From Jezero Crater on Mars
Perseverance’s MEDA will help us understand how to prepare astronauts for a future on the Red Planet. The weather often plays a role in our…
Evidence of Exciting New Physics From U.S. Department of Energy’s Muon G-2 Experiment – “Today Is an Extraordinary Day”
The long-awaited first results from the Muon g-2 experiment at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory show fundamental particles called muons behaving…
“Chemical Fingerprint” of First Transiting Exoplanet Reveals Its Distant Birthplace
Astronomers have found evidence that the first exoplanet that was identified transiting its star could have migrated to a close orbit with its star from…
“Death Star” Dueling Quasars Looming in the Sky: Hubble Spots Double Quasars in Merging Galaxies
Seeing Dual Quasars Is Like Finding a Needle in a Haystack Inhabitants of our Milky Way galaxy living several billion years from now will have…
NASA Conducts 2nd RS-25 Engine Hot Fire Test for World’s Most Powerful Rocket
NASA conducted a second RS-25 single engine hot fire test on April 6, 2021, as part of a new series to support the development and…
Genetic Sequencing Shows Coronavirus Variation Drives Pandemic Surges
Fusing classical epidemiology and genomics is a tool for future pandemics. Genome sequencing of thousands of SARS-CoV-2 samples shows that surges of COVID-19 cases are…
Reality Is Almost Stranger Than Fiction: The Incredible Bacterial “Homing Missiles” That Scientists Want to Harness
A Berkeley Lab-led team is digging into the bizarre bacteria-produced nanomachines that could fast-track microbiome science. Imagine there are arrows that are lethal when fired…
Snakefly Mystery Deepens After Surprising Fossil Discovery
Ancient predatory insects discovered in region once thought uninhabitable. Fossil discoveries often help answer long-standing questions about how our modern world came to be. However,…
Size of Raindrops Help Identify Potentially Habitable Planets Outside Our Solar System
Raindrops Also Keep Fallin’ on Exoplanets One day, humankind may step foot on another habitable planet. That planet may look very different from Earth, but…
Hubble Space Telescope Sees Volcanic Activity Reforming the Atmosphere on a Rocky Exoplanet
For the first time, scientists using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have found evidence of volcanic activity reforming the atmosphere on a rocky planet around…
Humans Were Apex Predators for Two Million Years – Our Stone Age Ancestors Mostly Ate Meat
Researchers at Tel Aviv University were able to reconstruct the nutrition of stone age humans. In a paper published in the Yearbook of the American…