It sounds like a strange question, but to biologists it makes all the sense in the world. Yeast cells tip the scales at about ...

Astronomers use many methods to determine this number, including gravitational lensing, the universe’s expansion rate, and more.

The questions of how humankind came to be, and whether we are alone in the universe, have captured imaginations for millennia ...

To answer a question or ask a new one, email [email protected] Between 50,000 and 100,000 tonnes of light gases such ...

Launch costs were high and minimizing mass sent to space was the main driver for mission design. To reduce mass, mission designs employed nuclear thermal propulsion (NTP), in-situ resource utilization ...

A collaborative team has revealed new observational evidence that sheds light on the mystery of massive star formation. Researchers from Yunnan University, the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory of the ...

The iron-rich core at the centre of our planet has been a crucial part of Earth’s evolution. The core not only powers the ...

A planetary scientist walks through the sensors and systems that went into the recent detection of potential biosignatures.

NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will help scientists better understand our Milky Way galaxy's less sparkly ...

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Scientists from the laboratory of Dr. Tomáš Pluskal at IOCB Prague are helping colleagues around the world identify previously unknown compounds. They have created an extensive library called MSnLib, ...