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 international… [+4358 chars]
The way electrons flow in materials determine its electronic properties. For example, when a voltage is sustained across a conducting material, electrons start flowing, generating an electrical curre… [+4705 chars]
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A team of scientists has created a powerful new method for generating protein drugs. Using computers, they designed molecules that can target important proteins in the body, such as the insulin recep… [+2990 chars]
Removing “hairs” from nanocrystals is an advance toward making them function together electronically, researchers report. You can carry an entire computer in your pocket today because the technologi… [+4539 chars]
Enlarge/ Astra's LV0009 takes off from Kodiak Island, Alaska, on March 15. 39 with 22 posters participating Welcome to Edition 4.36 of the Rocket Report! As I took last week off for Spring Break, t… [+7755 chars]
Using a microphone, a laser, and some crafty mathematics, a team of scientists has measured the speed of sound on Mars, in what is a scientific first and another cool finding made possible by NASAs P… [+3726 chars]
On April 15, planetary scientist and NASA astronaut Jessica Watkins will launch to the International Space Station and, as such, will likely be in space when the agency's Artemis 1 mission launches t… [+7195 chars]
Artificial intelligence has grown increasingly in recent years, with applications including speech recognition, picture identification, medical diagnosis and many others. Quantum technology, on the o… [+4057 chars]
Physicists believe that the discovery of mysterious vortex waves suggests that there is new solar physics to be uncovered. They have said that these new set of waves in the Sun, unexpectedly, appea… [+1821 chars]
Astronomers have detected a cloud of dust the size of a whole star, 330 light-years away. Its cause? A colossal smash-up between two exoplanets that were still just forming. We know this because ast… [+5150 chars]
China's first Mars orbiter is keeping tabs on multiple robots on the Red Planet's surface. The Tianwen 1 orbiter recently captured photos of the Zhurong rover, its partner on the Tianwen 1 Mars miss… [+3341 chars]
