The Indian Astronomical Observatory located in Hanle, Ladakh, captured aurora lights on its camera on the nights of April 22 and 23. This marks the first time auroras were seen in India.

The primary structure that will serve as the "bones" of NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope has moved into the big cleanroom at NASA's Goddard Space Fli...

Kangaroos, koalas and other marsupials are even weirder than we give them credit for.

Several high-performance thermoelectric materials have been discovered over the past two decades, but without efficient devices to convert the energy they produce into emission-free power, their promise has been unfulfilled. Now an international team of scien…

The loss of about 10,000 bits of genetic information over the course of our evolutionary history differentiates humans from chimpanzees.

A South African plant called a wooly umbrella is completely unrelated to the cannabis plant, yet it makes a slew of the active compounds found in cannabis—cannabinoids—including some that may have new medical uses.

The International Space Station set to retire in 2030 will remain in operation with the full cooperation of all partners through at least 2028.

Its power source is getting fainter, and its signals have to travel further, but this extraordinary spacecraft is not done yet.

May 1, 2023, Mountain View, CA – One of the world’s most powerful radio telescope arrays is joining the hunt for signals from other galactic civilizations. The National Science Foundation’s Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA), situated about 50 miles west o…

This distant world is making a mockery of our understanding of celestial rings.

What are some skywatching highlights in May 2023?Venus reaches its highest point in the evening sky for the year, while Jupiter disappears behind the Moon fo...

A team of scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Ames National Laboratory demonstrated a way to advance the role of quantum computing in materials re

Several high-performance thermoelectric materials have been discovered over the past two decades, but without efficient devices to convert the energy they produce into emission-free power, their promise has been unfulfilled. Now an international team

Protocluster Confirmed, 650 Million Years after the Big Bang How did we get here? This fundamental question may be applied on its grandest scale in cosmology, which investigates the history and origin of the universe. Astronomers are able to investigate the e…

NASA’s Artemis program to return humans to the lunar surface is moving at a snail’s pace. Here’s why.

Ensembles of explainable machine-learning models increase the quality of explanations for the molecular basis of synergetic drug combinations, as shown for the treatment of acute myeloid leukaemia.

Whenever SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory's linear accelerator is on, packs of around a billion electrons each travel together at nearly the speed of light through metal piping. These electron bunches form the accelerator's particle beam, which is used to…

This study reveals a cannabinoid biosynthetic pathway in Helichrysum umbraculigerum, a plant genetically distant from Cannabis, providing a potential source of new cannabinoids and metabolic engineering tools.

Scientists said Monday they have found a way to use brain scans and artificial intelligence modeling to transcribe "the gist" of what people are thinking, in what was described as a step towards mind reading.

Researchers at Northwestern University and the University of Texas at Austin have developed a thin and flexible graphene “tattoo” that can be affixed to

A new artificial intelligence system called a semantic decoder can translate a person's brain activity—while listening to a story or silently imagining telling a story—into a continuous stream of text. The system developed by researchers at The University of …

The authors argue that the virome of the last eukaryotic common ancestor is bacterial, rather than archaeal, providing support for a syntrophic model of eukaryogenesis with two endosymbiosis events.

The authors report a highly diverse Middle Ordovician Burgess Shale-type fauna from Wales (UK) that compares with the Burgess Shale and Chengjiang biotas in palaeoenvironment and preservational style.

A team of space scientists with the Chinese Academy of Sciences, at both the Purple Mountain Observatory and the National Astronomical Observatories, has found that the traditional view of the Milky Way galaxy as having four arms is not correct. In their pape…

The team revealed the series of biochemical steps the plant takes when it makes these compounds and also showed how these steps can be reproduced in the lab.