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]
image: Astrophysicist Lisa Kewley has been named director of the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian.view more Credit: Cristy Roberts/ASTRO 3D Cambridge, Mass. – Lisa J. Kewley has… [+5044 chars]
LGBT+ physicists often face harassment and other behaviors that make them leave the profession, according to a new study, which comes as physics as a discipline has attempted to grapple with equity a… [+6422 chars]
One of the universe’s most enthralling mysteries is the existence of black holes. Nothing can pass through a black hole, not even light. In nearly every galaxy, there is a supermassive black hole tha… [+4754 chars]
video: Dipolar colloidal particles are driven out of equilibrium by a spinning magnetic field. The Rice University experiment demonstrates how gases, represented by the dispersed particles, and liqui… [+7043 chars]
Earth could be hit by a series of mild geomagnetic storms on Monday and Tuesday (March 14 and 15) after a moderate solar flare blasted out of the sun's atmosphere several days ago, according to gover… [+2934 chars]
As a molecular machine found in the cells of all organisms, the ribosome is responsible for making new proteins. It reads the blueprint for a certain protein on a messenger moleculeknown as messenger… [+3532 chars]
One of the universe’s most enthralling mysteries is the existence of black holes. Nothing can pass through a black hole, not even light. In nearly every galaxy, there is a supermassive black hole tha… [+4754 chars]
Astronomers have captured the moment a star, 500 million light years from Earth, exploded in a dramatic supernova, marking the end of its life. A type II supernova explosion happens when a very larg… [+4705 chars]
Asteroids are dangerous big rocks that float through space and could take out civilisations, if the size is big enough. On a regular basis, Earth keeps getting visited by massive rocks that pass too … [+2102 chars]
In a recent Molecular Therapy: Nucleic Acids study, researchers demonstrate enhanced loss-of-function editing of clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR)/CRISPR-associated p… [+6155 chars]
Starship is the future of SpaceX. SpaceX SpaceX came into existence on March 14, 2002 and it's been busy since. The company released a whirlwind retrospective video on Monday mark its 20th anniver… [+1323 chars]