SINGAPORE, May 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Mission Discovery Singapore is back and offers Secondary School students a once-in-a-lifetime chance team up with 3 Rockstar NASA astronauts to do something ex… [+2876 chars]
Ten years ago, a new technology called CRISPR-CAS9, made it possible for scientists to change the genetic code of living organisms. As revolutionary as it was, the tool had its limitations. Like the … [+5570 chars]
MIT researchers have created an interactive design pipeline that streamlines and simplifies the process of crafting a customized robotic hand with tactile sensors. Typically, a robotics expert may s… [+6753 chars]
Versatile catalysts with new features and functions could revolutionize scientists' synthetic strategies, paving the way for high-value chemicals and a greener chemical industry. In search of such ca… [+3578 chars]
Enlarge/ Planetary scientist Paul Byrne created this compilation of NASA images showing the InSight spacecraft on its 10th day on Mars, and the lander 1,201 days later. 57 with 37 posters participa… [+2640 chars]
While volcanic eruptions and earthquakes serve as immediate reminders that Earth's insides are anything but tranquil, there are also other, more elusive, dynamic processes happening deep down below t… [+5571 chars]
Sugars, amino acids, drugs - chiral molecules are everywhere. Researchers in the AQUACHIRAL project at the Fritz-Haber-Institut have used X-rays to study hair-thin liquid jets of these molecules. Usi… [+3605 chars]
NASA's Lucy space probe had a unique perspective of the recent total lunar eclipse on the night of May 15th. Here on Earth, during a total lunar eclipse, the Moon takes on a reddish appearance due t… [+1808 chars]
Stressed forest in the Western US. Credit: William Anderegg Planting a tree appears to be a generally positive thing to do for the environment. After all, trees take in carbon dioxide, offsetting so… [+2802 chars]
Mercury, the smallest planet in our solar system, has been looming close to the sun for billions of years and has conditions impossible to support life. And it is this extreme vicinity to the sun tha… [+2494 chars]
After four years of digging for fossils in a churchyard in York, Pennsylvania, amateur paleontologist Chris Haefner made an intriguing find. I knew it was worth keeping, he said. He posted his discov… [+5967 chars]
Ceres is a dwarf planet that floats between Mars and Jupiter in the asteroid belt. It was once thought to be a planet, but astronomers later downgraded it to an asteroid. According to a recent compu… [+2769 chars]