The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the European Southern Observatory (ESO) recently saw a glimpse of Earth's distant future. NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (T… [+2929 chars]
A new study suggests that climate change can also affect dead animals. 183 million years ago, rising global temperatures and rapid climate change may have caused fossilization conditions in the ocean… [+3623 chars]
A team of French researchers found these spiders take down their prey in packs using specialised web vibrations. (Picture: Credit Bernard Dupont / Wikimedia Commons) Like spiders werent already terr… [+4185 chars]
The geological events we see on the surface of the Earth as mountains, volcanoes and earthquakes are expressions of processes that are happening deep in our planet. Here on the Earth's crust, we're p… [+7159 chars]
A team led by scientists at the University of Birmingham has come a step closer to uncovering the purpose of a distinctive set of modifications found at the beginning of messenger RNA which have long… [+3900 chars]
When ribosomes collide in the cells of complex organisms, from yeast to humans, they trigger a quality control process that keeps protein production on track. New work suggests that the collisions (a… [+5449 chars]
March 7 marked the 20th anniversary of the installation of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope's Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) by astronauts during the Hubble Servicing Mission 3B. The ACS has a wide … [+2142 chars]
NASA says it is considering studying sex in space, as it is 'crucial' for future long-haul missions to the Moon and Mars, that could see astronauts away from Earth for years. This was said in respon… [+12526 chars]
NASA says it is considering studying sex in space, as it is 'crucial' for future long-haul missions to the Moon and Mars, that could see astronauts away from Earth for years. This was said in respon… [+12526 chars]
By considering wormholes, hypothetical bridges connecting distant points in the Universe, physicists may have discovered what happens to matter that is swallowed by black holes. The researchers from… [+3563 chars]
The etymology of octopus, the name of the well-known, many-tentacled sea creature, derives from Greek "okto," meaning eight, and "pous," foot literally, eight-foot. However, an octopus fossil with 10… [+3922 chars]
Play of shadows in space causes a great many effects. The celestial bodies come between a star and another planet and cast their shadow on the latter. We are very well familiar with this play here on… [+1028 chars]
