A field known as synthetic biology has become one of the most highly anticipated in science. Its...
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For the first time, researchers have demonstrated that certain lichen species can survive Mars-like conditions, including exposure...
Researchers at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) have developed a bacteria-based technique to repair bricks that...
Using the Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA), European astronomers have carried out multi-wavelength radio observations of a...
A bitcoin investor who bought a SpaceX flight for himself and three polar explorers blasted off Monday...
NASA’s celebrity astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams said Monday that they hold themselves partly responsible for...
The ice-giant planet Uranus, which travels around the sun tipped on its side, is a weird and...
In April 2019, rare primitive meteorites fell near the town of Aguas Zarcas in northern Costa Rica....
Europe’s physics lab CERN is planning to build a particle-smasher even bigger than its Large Hadron Collider...
NASA’s Electrodynamic Dust Shield (EDS) successfully demonstrated its ability to remove regolith, or lunar dust and dirt,...
NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover has detected the largest organic (carbon-containing) molecules ever found on the red planet....
A team of biomedical engineers at the Blue Marble Space Institute of Science working with a team...
One of the most powerful objects in the universe is a radio quasar—a spinning black hole spraying...
Dark matter is a confounding concept that teeters on the leading edges of cosmology and physics. We...
Venus—a hot planet pocked with tens of thousands of volcanoes—may be even more geologically active near its...
SpaceX is set to launch the first human spaceflight directly over Earth’s polar regions on Monday—a days-long,...
The European Space Agency (ESA) has powered down its Gaia spacecraft after more than a decade spent...
The surface of Mars is known for being an extremely cold, desiccated, and irradiated place. But as...
One of the strangest facts in computer science is that it’s really hard to generate true random...
NASA’s Perseverance rover landed on Mars in 2021 to search for signs of ancient microbial life and...