A huge drop in sea levels trapped extremely salty water in the Indian Ocean, which then gushed into the Atlantic when currents changed 15,000 years ago.
NEW ORLEANS — EssilorLuxottica’s Essilor Stellest lenses slowed myopia progression and axial length increase in children in a 4-year clinical trial, according to data presented at the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology meeting.
A light-bending cluster of galaxies 9 billion light-years away is NASA’s Friday photographic gift to people who want to end the work week with deep thoughts.
A new test stand for "Asia's largest thrust liquid-propellant rocket engines" was give a trial run on May 8, 2023, according to China Central Television. The...
A new fluorescent probe designed and synthesized by researchers can effectively and selectively detect Al3+ ions through the coexistence of photo-induced electron transfer (PET) and twisted intramolecular charge transfer (TICT) mechanisms.
Russian cosmonauts Dmitri Petelin and Sergey Prokopyev prepared for a spacewalk to activate a radiator on the International Space Station's Nauka science module Friday.
Ocean motion plays a key role in the Earth's energy and climate systems. In recent decades, ocean science has made great strides in providing general estimates of large-scale ocean motion. However, there are still many dynamic mechanisms that are not fully un…
Scientists at The Open University (OU) have analyzed isotopic measurements in the atmosphere of Mars, providing new information on the evolution of the Martian climate throughout history and the origin of surface organics on Mars.
The bacteria present in the intestine provide information about the quantities of fungi of the potentially disease-causing Candida genus. Among them, and surprisingly, are lactic acid bacteria that are known for their protective effect against fungal infectio…
New synthetic metabolic pathways for fixation of carbon dioxide could not only help to reduce the carbon dioxide content of the atmosphere, but also replace conventional chemical manufacturing processes for pharmaceuticals and active ingredients with carbon-n…
The body's cells are constantly receiving and reacting to signals from their environment. A lot is known about how a cell senses and responds to chemical signals, or biomolecules, such as COVID-19. But little is known about how signals from the physical envir…
Chandra X-ray Observatory Helps Astronomers Discover a Surprisingly Lonely Galaxy There is a surprisingly lonely galaxy about 9.2 billion light-years from Earth. Its surroundings have many features of a galaxy cluster, implying the galaxy has likely pulled in…
A group of researchers and engineers from the SETI Institute, Impossible Sensing, NASA JPL, and other institutions will assess their ground-breaking robotic laser system on a deep-sea expedition aboard the E/V Nautilus.
NASA takes us on a virtual tour of space with its Astronomy Picture of the Day series. This week, it has featured the Dancer Galaxy, a view of the Milky Way Galaxy in Egyptian skies, and more.