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A new resource from the Gene Ontology Consortium, a comprehensive encyclopedia of the known functions of all protein-coding human genes, has just been completed and released on a new website.…
Mars is widely known for its iconic rusty red color — many people even refer to it as just the “Red Planet” — but new research suggests the Martian shade…
Researchers at UC Santa Barbara and TU Dresden are blurring the lines between robotics and materials, with a proof-of-concept material-like collective of robots with behaviors inspired by biology. “We’ve figured…
This astronaut won’t be letting his prosthetic leg ground him to the confines of Earth. European Space Agency (ESA) reserve astronaut John McFall has just become the first person with…
Ancient Egyptian mummified bodies smell ‘woody,’ ‘spicy’ and ‘sweet’, finds a new study led by researchers from UCL and the University of Ljubljana, revealing new details about mumification practices. The…
The surface of the Earth’s inner core may be changing, as shown by a new study from USC scientists that detected structural changes near the planet’s center, published today in…
Euclid blasted off on its six-year mission to explore the dark Universe on 1 July 2023. Before the spacecraft could begin its survey, the team of scientists and engineers on…
The monster jet spans at least 200,000 light-years and formed when the Universe was less than 10% of its current age From decades of astronomical observations scientists know that most…
Bonobos realize when humans miss information and communicate accordingly To get treats, apes eagerly pointed them out to humans who didn’t know where they were, a seemingly simple experiment that…
Blue Origin just launched a first-of-its kind mission to suborbital space. The company, which was founded by Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, sent its reusable New Shepard suborbital vehicle aloft today (Feb.…
Blue Origin is now targeting Tuesday (Feb. 4) for its first-ever moon-gravity mission. The company first tried to launch the NS-29 mission of its New Shepardsuborbital vehicle on Jan. 28,…
Suni Williams surpasses the most time by a woman on EVA during a spacewalk with Butch Wilmore outside the International Space Station. Two NASA astronauts working outside of the International…
Scientists have studied the moon’s surface for decades to help piece together its complex geological and evolutionary history. Evidence from the lunar maria (dark, flat areas on the moon filled…
An international team of scientists has discovered a way to store and release volatile hydrogen using lignin-based jet fuel that could open new pathways for sustainable energy production. In a…
5.6 miles per second (9 kilometers per second), or 20,500 miles per hour (33,000 kilometers per hour) — the fastest winds ever measured on a planet. The faraway world, a…
The new ability to pinpoint sources of fast radio bursts places one recent burst in a surprising location Astronomer Calvin Leung was excited last summer to crunch data from a…
Dark matter can’t be too heavy or it might break our best model of the universe, new research suggests. We have an abundance of evidence that something fishy is happening…
Astrophysicists led by a team from Trinity College Dublin have — for the first time — imaged a large number of exocomet belts around nearby stars, and the tiny pebbles…
New proteins not found in nature have now been designed to counteract certain highly poisonous components of snake venom. The deep learning, computational methods for developing these toxin-neutralizing proteins offer…
One supermassive black hole has kept astronomers glued to their scopes for the last several years. First came a surprise disappearance, and now, a precarious spinning act. The black hole…
In the same way that ChatGPT understands human language, a new AI model developed by Columbia computational biologists captures the language of cells to accurately predict their activities. Using a…
Collaborative work by amateur and professional astronomers has helped to resolve a long-standing misunderstanding about the composition of Jupiter’s clouds. Instead of being formed of ammonia ice — the conventional…
NASA wants to get Mars samples to Earth, but budget problems and technical woes have the mission caught between a rock and the Red Planet. There appears to be an…
Photon-avalanching nanosensors access previously unreachable environments and could disrupt technologies from robotics to cellular biophysics and medicine to space travel Mechanical force is an essential feature for many physical and…
The spacecraft flew within 3.8 million miles (6.1 million kilometers) of the solar surface to “touch the sun” on Christmas Eve. NASA’s Parker Solar Probe is alive! Two days after…