From sunflowers to starfish, symmetry appears everywhere in biology. This isn't just true for body plans -- the molecular machines keeping our cells alive are also strikingly symmetric. But why? Does… [+2498 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]
Around 500,000 people in the UK live with Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD), a life-long, chronic condition characterised by sporadic bouts of gut inflammation causing debilitating symptoms. Crohn's D… [+5937 chars]
A new Cornell study sheds light on a controversial debate in epigenetics the set of molecular changes occurring on top of the genome that regulate how genes are turned on and off, but without changin… [+3264 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]
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]
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]
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]
The sun continues its tumultuous behavior, with flares and coronal mass ejections nearly every day since mid-January. This means that the inevitable has happened: some of those eruptions have explode… [+3818 chars]
The discovery photograph of Pluto found by Clyde W. Tombaugh of Lowell Observatory in 1930. Astronomers today suspect that there might be a previously unknown Planet 9 in the distant solar system, bu… [+4130 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]
Astronomers have watched the young binary star system SVS 13 for decades. Astronomers don’t know much about how planets form around proto-binary stars like SVS 13, and the earliest stages are especia… [+8761 chars]
