The Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work. The big idea A newly discovered fast radio burst has some unique properties that are simultaneously giving astronomers important … [+4906 chars]
Boeings CST-100 Starliner spacecraft landed at the U.S. Armys White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico, March 25. This draws a close to the end-to-end unmanned orbital flight test launched on May 19.… [+1841 chars]
In this series of posts, we sit down with a few of the keynote speakers of the 240th AAS meeting to learn more about them and their research. You can see a full schedule of their talks here, and read… [+2870 chars]
The crew for the first mission in the privately funded Polaris program is scaling new heights to prepare for their record-breaking SpaceX flight later this year. A mission profile, launch schedule e… [+4487 chars]
Genetic variants that can act as switches directing structural changes in the RNA molecules that code for proteins in plants have been experimentally validated in plants for the first time. The chang… [+6853 chars]
Antarctic fish have evolved to surviveand thriveunder unbearable conditions. They make their living at the sub-zero Centigrade, freezing temperatures of the ice-filled Southern Ocean, and they keep t… [+4588 chars]
E. coli cells used in the long-term evolution experiment (LTEE) on an agar plate.Credit: Jeffrey Barrick On 24 February 1988, evolutionary biologist Richard Lenski filled 12 flasks with sugary growt… [+8431 chars]
Newswise — BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- The structure of how DNA is stored in archaea makes a significant difference to how quickly it evolves, according to a new study by Indiana University researchers. Th… [+2418 chars]
Many technologies are designed using quantum mechanics. Such technologies are based on exactly equal photons. However, it isn’t easy to generate such photons. They must have precisely the same wavele… [+2795 chars]
Artists' depiction of the debris disk around HD 53143. Photo / SuppliedA team of American astronomers have captured what appears to be the formation of a new planetary system, providing a vital clue … [+2141 chars]
Newswise — COLUMBUS, Ohio – Advances in nanotechnology have made it possible to fabricate structures out of DNA for use in biomedical applications like delivering drugs or creating vaccines, but new … [+3657 chars]
image: This series of images shows how astronomers find stellar streams by reversing the light and dark, similar to negative images. Color images of each of the nearby galaxies featured are included … [+6059 chars]
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