Fuerteventura and Lanzarote, part of the Canary Islands lying in the North Atlantic Ocean, are featured in this false-color image captured on September 24, 2021, by the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission.… [+2820 chars]
A team of researchers say theyve found some building blocks of RNA in a molecular cloud close to the center of the Milky Way. The discovery has implications for theories about how life began on Earth… [+3955 chars]
In a former gold mine a mile underground, inside a titanium tank filled with a rare liquified gas, scientists have begun the search for what so far has been unfindable: dark matter. Scientists are … [+5186 chars]
Our living planet is unique among all we've been able to explore in the Universe so far. From our axial tilt preventing too many temperature extremes, to our goldilocks zone position, life on Earth d… [+4018 chars]
Lots of little dots with no apparent pattern: where laypeople may just see milky gray photos sprinkled with what looks like random crumbs, it is enough to make astronomers’ hearts miss a beat. We are… [+5071 chars]
A virtual creature swings four tentacle-like arms, pushing itself forward. It creeps up a hill then rushes down the other side. It looks like an octopus walking on land, says Agrim Gupta. This strang… [+6820 chars]
Dozens of testimonials collected by the weather watch website NZWeatherWatch ball report from Fire that could have been heard and seen in broad daylight this Thursday. The platform said the people wh… [+2045 chars]
What is quantum communication? When the first theories of quantum physics appeared in the early twentieth centurye century, scientists at the time must have been far from doubting that one day we wo… [+4774 chars]
The dynamic nature of post-translational modifications (PTMs) enables instantaneous intracellular signaling events. We are interested in a diverse range of modifications such protein acylation in liv… [+1109 chars]
ByLonnie Shekhtman, NASA's Goddard Space Flight CenterJuly 8, 2022 NASAs OSIRIS-REx spacecraft leaving the surface of asteroid Bennu after collecting a sample. Credit: NASAs Goddard Space Flight Cen… [+8965 chars]
Icy path: Chasing ghost particles at the South Pole. (Courtesy: Yuya Makino) This edition of the Red Folder looks at some images from two science-related photography contests. Last week the Interna… [+1557 chars]
Artistic reconstruction of the yunnanozoan from the Cambrian Chengjiang biota shows basket-like pharyngeal skeletons. Credit: Dinghua Yang Research reveals yunnanozoans as the oldest known stem vert… [+4848 chars]
