Illustration of the faint fuel reservoirs that surround galaxies, allowing them to form new stars and planetary systems. Credit: Shireen Dooling/ASU Most galaxies, including our…
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Gary Moore and his colleagues describe the use of ring-shaped molecules known as porphyrins, seen in this graphic. Such molecules, among the most abundant pigments…
An artist’s concept of a “hot Jupiter” extrasolar planet. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech By combining Hubble Space TelescopeThe Hubble Space Telescope (often referred to as Hubble or…
Carlo Maley is a researcher with the Biodesign Center for Biocomputing, Security and Society at Arizona State University. Maley is also researcher with the Biodesign…
The mouth of the Arma Veirana cave, a site in the Ligurian mountains of northwestern Italy. Credit: Dominique Meyer Ten thousand years ago, just after…
Study shows stress led to drinking more than intended in men only when they already had consumed alcohol. A new study has shown that stress…
A chimney structure from the Sea Cliff hydrothermal vent field located more than 8,800 feet (2,700 meters) below the sea’s surface at the submarine boundary…
New developmental psychology work has upended decades of research suggesting that children as young as 4 years old possess theory of mind. Having theory of…
Tesla aims to show off a prototype humanoid robot as soon as next year. Credit: Tesla Elon Musk announced a humanoid robot designed to help…
This image shows a bone tool from Contrebandiers Cave, Morocco that was used for leather working 120,000 to 90,000 years ago. Credit: Jacopo Niccolò Cerasoni…
Of all the creatures on Earth, humans manipulate their environments the most. But, how far can we push it before something drastic happens? Scientists are…
A new ASU study shows that the outer plastic coating around laundry and dish pods needs specific conditions to biodegrade. These conditions are not met…
Uranus, taken by the NASA spacecraft Voyager 2. This ice giant, which is the seventh planet from the sun in our solar system, is nearly…
Illustration of space junk orbiting Earth. On May 8, 2021, a piece of space junk from a Chinese rocket fell uncontrolled back to Earth and…
Tian’s research reveals a novel winner-takes-all resource competition between synthetic gene circuits within one host cell. Credit: Graphic created by Xiaojun Tian/ASU Division of synthetic…
New solar performance monitoring system has potential to become IoT of photovoltaics. Suns Voc current-voltage testing adapted for system-wide use. A new system for measuring…
Cruciviruses are a hybrid form containing both RNA and DNA genomic material. Here, a single-stranded DNA virus (yellow) containing a Rep protein sequence, which directs…
The Butterfly nebula, an example of a star forming region in the Tarantula nebula. The white scale bar is 2 light years or about 120,000…
Males and females share the vast majority of their genomes. Only a sprinkling of genes, located on the so-called X and Y sex chromosomes, differ…
The tuatara is the last surviving member of the reptilian order Rhynchocephalia, which once flourished globally in the age of the dinosaurs. Today, they live…