[ad_1] Credit: CC0 Public Domain Scientists at the Biosystems Dynamics Research Center (BDR) in Japan, in collaboration with other Japanese institutes and aquariums, decoded for the first time the complete genome of …
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[ad_1] Hubble seen by Space Shuttle Discovery in 1997.Photo: Hubble ESA (Flickr) The Hubble Space Telescope went into safe mode over the weekend to allow scientists to determine what to do after …
Read More »A Voyager 2 probe could be about to enter interstellar space, 41 years after leaving the Earth
[ad_1] NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft has been traveling in space for 41 years and is currently just under 11 billion kilometers from Earth, more than 118 times the distance between the Earth …
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[ad_1] Exploring the tropics of Jupiter's moon ocean, Europa, would not be a walk on the beach. The equatorial regions of the potentially vital Europa, home to a huge ocean of salty …
Read More »Dwarf Planet Ceres Got an Epic Makeover from Wobbly Surface
[ad_1] This view of Ceres from NASA's Dawn spacecraft shows what the dwarf planet would look like to the human eye. A new study suggests the rocky world's surface has been wobbled …
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[ad_1] The wireless device naturally absorbs into the body after a week or two. Credit: Northwestern University Researchers at Northwestern University and the Washington University School of Medicine have come up with …
Read More »Engineers build smallest integrated Kerr frequency comb generator
[ad_1] Illustration showing an array of microring resonators on a chip converting laser light into frequency combs. Credit: Brian Stern/Columbia Engineering Optical frequency combs can enable ultrafast processes in physics, biology, and …
Read More »NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft may soon enter interstellar space
[ad_1] NASA Voyager 2 has detected an increase in cosmic rays from outside this solar system. Launched in 1977, the space probe is less than 11 billion kilometers from Earth, more than …
Read More »Scientists find in the brain a "switch" that allows us to sleep and makes us colder
[ad_1] Scientists have discovered a set of nerve cells in the brain that are essential to our ability to sleep and control our body temperature. The functioning of sleep in the human …
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