NASA astronaut Harrison Schmitt collects lunar samples during the Apollo 17 mission in 1972. NASA In December 1972, NASA astronauts Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt drilled into the surface of th… [+3013 chars]
Research Box Title NASA has selected 24 new Fellows for its prestigious NASA Hubble Fellowship Program (NHFP). The NHFP is one of the highlights of NASA's pursuit of excellence in astrophysics. The … [+5395 chars]
How does a boa constrictor breathe while squishing its prey in its coils? When the snake tightens its coils around an animal, its own ribs also come under pressure from the snake’s own contracting mu… [+7378 chars]
The development of quantum computers is being pursued worldwide, and there are various concepts of how computing using the properties of the quantum world can be implemented. Many of these have alrea… [+3373 chars]
Amongst the high mountain meadows and grasslands of the Ethiopian plateau stands one primate, the gelada-the “bleeding heart” monkey named for its brilliant red chest. Geladas are the last of their k… [+12202 chars]
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. The next four-person crew set to fly to the International Space Station will hitch a ride on a SpaceX Crew Dragon named "Freedom." NASA astronaut Kjell Lindgren shared the new c… [+859 chars]
Newswise — An obscure species of wild grass contains “blockbuster” disease resistance that can be cross bred into wheat to give immunity against one of the deadliest crop pathogens. A collaborative … [+4489 chars]
Everything smaller gets consumed and turned into these lovely coprolites, he said. Everything larger gets something taken out of it, but it was able to get away from the attack. The attacker, he sur… [+1525 chars]
The Cambrian Explosion, more than 500 million years ago, saw the rapid spread of bilaterian species – symmetrical along a central line, like most of today's animals, including humans. The 518-millio… [+4106 chars]
Experimental design. a Computational framework to select regions and perturbation sites. b Heatmap of motif instances in the assayed regions (left); distribution of the number of motifs perturbed in … [+5262 chars]
Hubble has photographed a massive spiral galaxy that lies about 60 million light-years from Earth. Despite its size, it’s far from the largest celestial object known to astronomers. The photo was c… [+2376 chars]
Shown here being packed up for shipment to its launch site last year, the James Webb Space Telescope was designed to probe the early Universe.Credit: Chris Gunn/NASA Internal NASA documents obtained… [+8941 chars]
