OSIRIS-REx mission scientists thought sampling a piece of Bennu would be like a walk on the beach, but the surprisingly craggy surface proved to be…
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Researchers at MIT and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute have developed a new way to determine whether an individual cancer patient will respond to a particular drug.…
The Soyuz MS-18 crew ship relocates from the Rassvet module to the Nauka multipurpose laboratory module on September 28, 2021. Credit: NASA The Expedition 65…
July 3, 2014 If you look frequently at satellite imagery or astronaut photography, you have probably noticed bright patches of light that can make certain…
Cartoon image of antibody and COVID. Credit: Michigan Medicine The antibodies’ ability to neutralize COVID-19First identified in 2019 in Wuhan, China, Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)…
Ahead of Columbus Day, findings pose further questions of what the explorer really expected to find on his voyage. New analysis of ancient writings suggests…
We report how the Westerbork dishes (left) detected a periodic, short Fast Radio Burst in the blue, high-frequency radio sky. Time passed, the steady background…
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Welcome back to The TechCrunch Exchange, a weekly startups-and-markets newsletter. It’s inspired by what the weekday Exchange column digs into, but free, and made for…
$2.5 trillion is spent globally to assess, mitigate and repair corrosion of infrastructure, according to Penn State Assistant Professor Juan Pablo Gevaudan. He is leading…
Aartist’s illustration of China’s Chang’e 5 moon sample-return spacecraft. Credit: CNSA/NASA Scientists share analysis of first fresh samples from the moon in more than 40…
In a late-August ruling, China’s supreme court declared one of the country’s most infamous work practices illegal. Known as “996,” the term is shorthand for…
Is MarsMars is the second smallest planet in our solar system and the fourth planet from the sun. Iron oxide is prevalent in Mars’ surface…
May 9, 2021 The southern coasts of this Chinese island are lined with tropical beaches, while the inner bays are lined with floating fishing villages.…
Joshua Jahani Contributor Joshua Jahani is a lecturer at Cornell University and New York University, and a board adviser at the investment bank Jahani and…
A new sensor could allow researchers to detect the rare earth element terbium from complex environmental samples, such as acid mine drainage — pictured here…
In a regular icosahedron (purple), six main interior diagonals (red lines) make equal angles with each other. Credit: Image: Zilin Jiang How many lines can…
Animation showing an artist’s rendition of Mars’ interior structure. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech A new report that could make it simpler to send spacecraft to some areas…
From pv magazine 10/2021 Today, the majority of high-efficiency modules on the market feature half-cut cell designs. Cell cutting was also a key enabler for…
This Hubble Space Telescope snapshot shows three magnified images of a distant galaxy embedded in a cluster of galaxies. These images are produced by a…