Research, Space & Discovery
A sea of corrugated metal roofs stretches into the distance across an informal settlement in Makassar, Indonesia.
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Autism Triplets Offer a Rare Microbiome Comparison—but Three Children Cannot Establish an ASD Signature
"We lose so much sleep, we have crazy hours, we say crazy things, we even look crazy."
Rocky planets may have gotten their start far earlier than anyone expected, almost as soon as the first stars gave the universe the ingredients to build them. New computer simulations suggest that pla...
While Ship 40 is preparing to be transported back to Starbase from Christmas Island, Ship…The postShip 41 Completes Engine Testing Ahead of Flight 14appeared first onNASASpaceFlight.com.
On Aug. 12, a total solar eclipse darkened skies over Greenland, Iceland, and Spain. As the Moon covered the Sun, it briefly revealed the Sun’s wispy outer atmosphere — the corona — to those in the pa...
Earth's inner core, composed primarily of iron with a small percentage of light elements, may enter a superionic state at extreme pressure and temperature, according to experimental results from resea...
mRNA Vaccine Review Finds Early Protection—but Leaves Major Pandemic Questions Unresolved
The NASA astronauts who flew around the moon on the Artemis II mission will receive the Congressional Space Medal of Honor next Friday (Aug. 28).
Direct imaging has revealed strong evidence that Betelgeuse is orbited by a companion two to three times as massive as the Sun. For generations, Betelgeuse has appeared to the naked eye as a single re...
Long polymer chains are everywhere: in synthetic materials, soft matter, biological systems such as chromosomes, and mathematical models of filaments and knots. When many such chains are densely packe...
HHS Declares a MAHA Revolution—But the Missing Wins May Matter Just as Much
Something in the young universe is shining like a star that should not be possible. NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has detected a compact red object so luminous that ordinary nuclear fusion cannot ...
Quasiparticles arise from the complex interaction of many particles in solids; for example, we describe lattice vibrations in crystals as phonons. Fractons are exotic quasiparticles that occur at the ...
Once a cell has locked into an abnormal state—the way cancer cells do—can it ever be restored to normal? A KAIST research team led by Professor Kwang-Hyun Cho of the Department of Bio and Brain Engine...
Infrared Brain Implant Moves Toward Year-Long ALS Trial in Europe
Why do some lakes remain plagued by harmful algal blooms even after phosphorus pollution has been reduced? Part of the answer lies beneath the surface. A new Concordia study has uncovered a previously...
In the vast, nutrient-poor regions of the world's oceans, there is a constant struggle for survival. Yet tiny organisms known as Collodaria have thrived there for millions of years. These Collodaria h...
This year's El Niño weather pattern will be the biggest in more than a century and could make 2027 the hottest year globally, Britain's national weather agency predicted Friday.