Ten years ago, as a new PhD graduate looking for my next position, I found myself in the academic cold. Nothing says you are an outsider more than a paywall asking US$38 for one article. That fuelled… [+5319 chars]
A new Cornell study, published in Nature Genetics, sheds light on a controversial debate in epigeneticsthe set of molecular changes occurring on top of the genome that regulate how genes are turned o… [+3891 chars]
The ESA is planning to build an oxygen plant on the Moon to help astronauts breathe in outer space. On Wednesday, a winner was selected by the European Space Agency (ESA) to be the first to construc… [+2585 chars]
image: Pictured is a continuously spouting cauldron of near-boiling water, one of a dozen spanning a 10-acre geothermal field at Mangra in southern Tibet. Helium-isotope geochemistry shows it sits ab… [+7027 chars]
De-extinction is the process of resurrecting species that have died out or gone extinct. This seems to have provided some people an opportunity to expand diversity of species and bring back animals w… [+3189 chars]
Artists impression of a (now-disproven) candidate planet formerly thought to be orbiting the star Alpha Centauri B, which is part of the triple star system closest to Earth. (Credit: ESO/L. Calçada/N… [+6214 chars]
An international group of researchers led by geologists from Wits University in Johannesburg have come up with multiple lines of evidence indicating that the Bushveld Complex in South Africa function… [+2447 chars]
From sunflowers to starfish, symmetry appears everywhere in biology. This isn't just true for body plansthe molecular machines keeping our cells alive are also strikingly symmetric. But why? Does evo… [+3129 chars]
The image captured by the Hubble Telescope. The Hubble Telescope - which has been serving as the eyes of humans in deep space for decades - has captured the entire process behind the birth of a star… [+1890 chars]
Enlarge/ Illustration of a swarm of smaller black holes in a gas disk rotating around a giant black hole. 42 with 21 posters participating In 2019, the LIGO/VIRGO collaboration picked up a gravitat… [+2915 chars]
A new study from MBARI researchers and their collaborators is the first to document how the thawing of permafrost, submerged underwater at the edge of the Arctic Ocean, is affecting the seafloor. The… [+4448 chars]
An international group of researchers led by geologists from Wits University in Johannesburg have come up with multiple lines of evidence indicating that the Bushveld Complex in South Africa function… [+2447 chars]
