Astronomers from the University of Warwick reveal a new phenomenon dubbed the "rocking shadow" effect that describes how discs in forming planetary systems are oriented, and how they move around thei… [+2420 chars]
Harmful fungi cause enormous agricultural losses. Conventional techniques for combating them involve the use of poisonous fungicides. Researchers at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), working w… [+4145 chars]
A SpaceX Dragon cargo capsule will meet up with the International Space Station (ISS) on Saturday (July 16), and you can watch the orbital action live. The robotic Dragon launched atop a two-stage F… [+4792 chars]
Inside Earth, elements such as iron and aluminum experience such extreme temperatures and pressures that the materials ooze through Earth’s interior—on geological timescales—like sap moves through a … [+2671 chars]
Newswise — Drought can cause issues for grain crops and three Clemson University scientists are working to get to the root of the problem. The scientists believe crops have a lesson or two to learn … [+5466 chars]
A particularly fascinating phenomenon arises for proteins that contain a topological knot in their polypeptide backbone, that is, proteins that would not fully disentangle after being pulled from bot… [+2149 chars]
ByMatt Williams, Universe TodayJuly 15, 2022 Artists impression of how Triton, Neptunes largest moon, might look from high above its surface. The distant Sun appears at the upper left and the blue c… [+16268 chars]
An asteroid the size of a 50-story skyscraper will zoom past Earth Sunday (July 17), making its closest approach to our planet in nearly 100 years. The meaty space rock, dubbed 2022 KY4, will safely… [+1836 chars]
Just a few days after NASA released images of the distant universe from the James Webb Space Telescope, Greek researcher Polychronis Patapis, a member of the team and one of the first to see them, sa… [+830 chars]
Remains recovered from a cave in the Chinese province of Yunnan more than 10 years ago have finally given up their secrets, with a DNA analysis revealing not just who left them, but ultimately where … [+3702 chars]
Artists view of Swarm, ESAs first Earth observation constellation of satellites. Credit: ESAP. Carril, 2013 The pressure is rising at ESAs mission control. A European Space Agency (ESA) satellite do… [+5587 chars]
Gamma source and dose modeling The general literature contains conflicting results on whether the energies of photons interacting with fungi affects the radiotrophic response. As such, we sought to … [+16375 chars]
