Research, Space & Discovery
HHS Unveils AI-Driven Genesis Mission to Combat Chronic Disease—Now Comes the Hard Part
Tracing the roots of diversity in the coveted fruit in Central AmericaThe postThe Avocados That May Save Us from a Guacamole Apocalypseappeared first onNautilus.
In 2012, Nature revealed that humans provide a home to thousands of different species of microbes in a series of papers that opened a path to understanding the impact of the human microbiome on our he...
Description This graphic illustrates the areas of Jupiter’s moon Io sampled by the Microwave Radiometer (MWR) instrument aboard NASA’s Juno spacecraft during two close flybys. The black overlapping li...
As editor of the World Happiness Report, few people know more than Jan-Emmanuel De Neve about what makes a country happy. He reveals what we can learn from the nations where people feel the most conte...
Have astronomers observed the first exomoon, or have they spotted a weird object that could challenge the very concept of planets and moons?
SpaceX continues to target no earlier than Thursday, July 23, for the next attempt to…The postPath to Starship Flight 13 requires additional Booster 20 testappeared first onNASASpaceFlight.com.
A new study reveals that some proposed signatures of quantum gravity may have an unexpected classical explanation. Imagine placing an object in two locations at once. Quantum mechanics allows such a p...
FDA Clears Next-Generation Gene Therapy Trial for Tay-Sachs and Sandhoff Diseases—A Milestone Worth Watching, Not Celebrating Yet
A new international study published in Nature Food reveals that age plays an important but often overlooked role in shaping global food-related greenhouse gas emissions. The study shows that dietary e...
Description This map represents data captured by the Microwave Radiometer (MWR) aboard NASA’s Juno spacecraft, indicating heat rising from just beneath the surface of Jupiter’s moon Io. While infrared...
A handheld breathalyser picks up on a molecule called acetone, revealing that your body is using fat for energy
When a fruit fly catches a whiff of a ripe peach, it quickly heads toward it. Time after time, it finds the fruit—even from many feet away and even if the scent arrives only as a few drifting, disconn...
NASA’s Juno mission has provided the first measurements of the temperature below the surface of Jupiter’s moon Io, revealing significant heating within the shallow subsurface of the most volcanically ...
A team of Vermont researchers has discovered that mysterious black skin lesions afflicting catfish in Lake Memphremagog and other New England and Canadian lakes are caused by a transmissible cancer—th...
Observations made with the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (ESO's VLT) have revealed evidence for a moon-like object in the CD-35 2722 system. Unlike moons in our solar system, th...
A team of scientists led by researchers at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History and Texas A&M University recently uncovered genetic traces of ancient migration in DNA from avocados gro...
Children in one country may be encouraged to share their toys, while those in another are taught to show kindness through empathy or building strong social bonds. Despite these different approaches, a...
Low-intensity green lighting in refrigerated storage can slow spoilage in leafy greens, helping maintain their appearance and nutritional value, according to a new study from McGill University. The re...
A Yale-led research team has proposed a less expensive—and more environmentally friendly—method for removing certain "forever chemicals" from millions of acres of farmland in the United States and aro...