European Southern Observatory A team of astronomers has used the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) to detect glowing oxygen in a distant galaxy seen just 700...
NASA A small asteroid has been discovered in an orbit around the sun that keeps it as a constant companion of Earth, and it will remain...
From University of Sydney The first-ever global nitrogen footprint, encompassing 188 countries, has found the United States, China, India and Brazil are responsible for 46 percent...
From University of Notre Dame A team of researchers has observed the brightest ultra metal-poor star ever discovered. The star is a rare relic from the...
From Scripps Research Institute A new study led by scientists at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) and the University of California (UC), Berkeley shows how a...
From CSIRO Australia CSIRO astronomer and first author of a paper released in Science Dr Keith Bannister said the structures appear to be ‘lumps’ in the...
From MIT If you’ve ever blown up a balloon or pulled at a pair of pantyhose, you may have noticed that the more the material stretches,...
From California Institute of Technology Caltech researchers have found evidence of a giant planet tracing a bizarre, highly elongated orbit in the outer solar system. The...
From Livermore National Laboratory LIVERMORE, California — Lawrence Livermore scientists, working with National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (link is external) and university colleagues, have found that...
From University of lowa Most animals, including humans, have two copies of their genome—the full set of instructions needed to make every cell, tissue, and organ in the...