In particle collider experiments, elementary particle interactions with large momentum transfer produce quarks and gluons (known as partons) whose evolution...
The subject of the new image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope is NGC 474, a gigantic elliptical galaxy located some 100 million light-years from...
Cultivated oat (Avena sativa) is an allohexaploid crop thought to have been domesticated more than 3,000 years ago while growing as a weed in wheat, emmer...
By December 2022, NASA expects its InSight (Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport) lander to have become inoperative,...
Current approaches for insect gene editing require microinjection of materials into early embryos. This severely limits the application of gene editing...
Archaeologists have uncovered a series of vibrantly-colored frescoes in an ancient temple at Esna, Egypt, located about 60 km south of the ancient Egyptian...
NASA has released a stunning new image snapped by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope of a quartet of galaxies called Hickson Compact Group 31.
This Hubble...
A team of scientists from Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History, the Federal University of Rondônia and the Federal University of Bahia has...
Paleoanthropologists have found a permanent lower molar of a young, likely female, hominin individual at the Tam Ngu Hao 2 limestone cave in the Annamite...
The reef manta ray (Mobula alfredi) is a globally threatened species and an iconic tourist attraction for visitors to Komodo National Park, an Indonesian...
Binary systems have received much attention as possible progenitors of Type Ia supernovae, but long-term gravitational effects in tight triple or quadruple...
A multinational team of scientists has performed a genome-wide association meta-analysis of clinically diagnosed and self-reported hearing impairment on...
Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have captured the brilliance of a globular cluster called NGC 6558.
This Hubble image shows NGC 6558,...
A team of researchers in Paraguay have described a beautiful new species of the snake genus Phalotris from the Paraguayan department of San Pedro.
Juvenile...
Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have captured a striking new photo of UGC 10143, a giant elliptical galaxy located in the center...
Using neutron and X-ray tomography, a team of planetary researchers from Lund University and elsewhere examined a section of Miller Range (MIL) 03346,...
GOES-18 (also known as GOES-T) is a new next-generation weather satellite of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
This image, taken...
Humans and other animals learn to extract general concepts from sensory experience without extensive teaching. This ability is thought to be facilitated...
The Hubble team has released a beautiful image of part of the Little Sombrero galaxy (also known as NGC 7814).
This Hubble image shows the edge-on spiral...
Using samples brought back from NASA’s Apollo 11, 12, and 17 missions, University of Florida biologists showed that a model terrestrial plant, Arabidopsis...
