We all must play the game of life with the cards we're dealt, so the common aphorism goes. In biology, this means organisms must compete through natural selection with the genes and anatomy they were… [+6730 chars]
image: Physicist Chad McCoy at Sandia National Laboratories Z machine loads sample coatings into holders. When Z fires, researchers will observe how well particular coatings protect objects stacked b… [+8504 chars]
A new climate simulation by NASA suggests that enormous volcanic eruptions called flood basalt eruptions could significantly warm Earths climate and destroy the ozone layer which shields us from the … [+2400 chars]
Mars is full of volcanoes, such as these ones in the Tharsis region: Ceraunius Tholus and Uranius ... [+] Tholus. This image came from data taken during separate orbits of the European Space Agency's… [+2281 chars]
What mysteries of the universe could the world's largest and most powerful particle accelerator unlock? The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN (the European Organization for Nuclear Research) near … [+16069 chars]
Washington (AFP) Boeing's Starliner capsule is finally ready to reattempt a key test launch to the International Space Station on May 19, officials said Tuesday. The uncrewed flight, named OFT-2, is … [+1218 chars]
A new climate simulation by NASA suggests that enormous volcanic eruptions called flood basalt eruptions could significantly warm Earths climate and destroy the ozone layer which shields us from the … [+2400 chars]
Accumulation of salicylic acid (SA) and jasmonates in poplar after infection with a virulent rust fungus, Melampsora larici-populina. (a, b) Concentrations of SA and its glucoside (SAG) in poplar lea… [+8540 chars]
A team of MIT scientists is looking for black hole echoes in an effort to shed some light on the regions of spacetime that largely remain a mystery to us. See, black holes only show any semblance of … [+1860 chars]
We all must play the game of life with the cards we're dealt, so the common aphorism goes. In biology, this means organisms must compete through natural selection with the genes and anatomy they were… [+6730 chars]
Word of an extraordinarily inexpensive material, lightweight enough to protect satellites against debris in the cold of outer space, cohesive enough to strengthen the walls of pressurized vessels exp… [+7460 chars]
New ancient DNA analysis has shed light on how the black rat, blamed for spreading Black Death, dispersed across Europerevealing that the rodent colonized the continent on two occasions in the Roman … [+4015 chars]
