Mysterious Lithium-Rich Star in Messier 4
Using the Wide Field Imager (WFI) on the MPG/ESO 2.2-meter telescope at ESO’s La Silla Observatory, astronomers captured a new image of globular star cluster…
Using the Wide Field Imager (WFI) on the MPG/ESO 2.2-meter telescope at ESO’s La Silla Observatory, astronomers captured a new image of globular star cluster…
A new gene therapy has the ability to fix a defective sense of smell in mice by repairing problems with the cilia on their olfactory…
One in five of Earth’s invertebrate species is currently threatened with extinction. These creatures represent 99% of the biodiversity on Earth. Until now, scientists haven’t…
This Hubble image shows spiral galaxy NGC 5806, which is located in the constellation Virgo roughly 80 million light years from Earth, and a supernova…
A gold particle five nanometers in width weighs just a few megadaltons, a tiny unit of measure used in biochemistry that is equivalent to the…
Using data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope and the Max-Planck-ESO telescope, this composite image shows a superbubble in NGC 1929, which…
It seems like something straightforward in essence, but apparently being a heavy cannabis smoker as a teenager results in a significant cognitive decline in adulthood,…
Documented in three new studies, data from NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer mission was used to discover millions of newfound supermassive black holes and extreme…
Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array, a team of astronomers discovered molecules of a simple form of sugar in the gas surrounding a young binary…
NASA’s Kepler mission has discovered multiple transiting planets orbiting two suns for the first time. The planets are in the Kepler-47 system, which is located…
A 2010 study using measurements taken by the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) satellite reported that glaciers in the Himalayas and the Tibetan plateau…
A newly published study from MIT scientists suggests that high pyruvate kinase activity may suppress tumor growth, finding that pharmaceutical compounds that force PKM2 to…
Consisting of visible and near-infrared exposures from Hubble’s Advanced Camera for Surveys, the above image shows globular cluster Messier 56, which is located in the…
Using data from NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope, scientists have verified 41 new transiting planets in 20 star systems, ranging from Earth-size to more than seven…
Following a season of unstable conditions this summer, the Arctic ice cap will have a record-breaking melt. This has been reported by the National Snow…
Using data from the Galaxy and Mass Assembly survey, astronomers found 14 galaxy systems that are similar to the Milky Way, with two of those…
An international team of physicists has gained new insights into how superconducting materials interact with magnetic ones, discovering charge density waves in ceramic yttrium and…
Over the last few weeks NASA’s Curiosity rover has been recording weather measurements and soil samples with its Chemistry and Camera instrument laser; now Curiosity…