One of the largest comets known is approaching our planet on the only trip through the inner solar system it will make during our lifetimes. Five years ago, the Hubble Space Telescope spotted a lar… [+2241 chars]
Chaos in natural populations appears to be much more common than previously recognized, according to a new analysis by scientists at UC Santa Cruz and NOAA Fisheries.Populations of organisms in natur… [+3070 chars]
In a new study recently published in Nature Plants, University of Saskatchewan (USask) researchers took a deeper look into how plants control the growth of the important cells that allow them to conv… [+3235 chars]
Global food demand is a global dilemma. Over the past century, the world population has quadrupled. Food demand is expected to grow between 59 to 98 percent by 2050, yet it may not be possible for … [+5988 chars]
Life (as we know it) is based on carbon. Despite its ubiquity, this important element still holds plenty of secrets, on earth and in the heavens above us. For example, astrophysicists like Columbia's… [+3912 chars]
Patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD) have lower levels of the neuromodulator acetylcholine (ACh) in their brains. Donepezil, an AD drug, increases brain ACh levels and improves AD-associated learni… [+5566 chars]
<li>Xiaowei, A. C. Method of the Year 2020: spatially resolved transcriptomics. Nat. Methods18, 1 (2021). A Review article that reports spatial transcriptomics as the Method of the Year 2020. Articl… [+1229 chars]
A new video released by the European Space Agency (ESA) on Monday (June 27) shows the crater-riddled surface of the solar system's smallest planet Mercury as captured during a super close flyby of th… [+4103 chars]
An international team of astronomers has assembled the power of 64 radio televisions for the first time to obtain weak hydrogen gas signatures on a biologically neutral scale. This achievement was a… [+3070 chars]
They say that where there's smoke, there's fire, and Weizmann Institute of Science researchers are working hard to investigate that claim, or at least elucidate what constitutes "smoke." In an articl… [+6398 chars]
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The central core of a test model of ESAs new Ariane 6 heavy lift rocket has been assembled for the first time in the purpose-built Launcher Assembly Building at Europes Spaceport in French Guiana.Ari… [+1244 chars]
