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The ability of the adult brain to form new memories and absorb new information may be explained by these immature connections. MIT neuroscientists have found that the adult brain is filled with millions of "silent synapses" — immature connections between neur…

To Einstein, nature had to be rational. But quantum physics showed us that there was not always a way to make it so.

Take a look at this new image of a molecular cloud taken from the James Webb Telescope.

Scientific Reports - Epidemiological role of novel and already known ‘Ca. P. solani’ cixiid vectors in rubbery taproot disease of sugar beet in Serbia

In a recent paper accepted to Contemporary Physics, a physicist from Imperial College London uses past missions and recent findings to encourage the importance of searching for life in the atmosphere of the solar system's most inhospitable planet, Venus.

Astronomers have released a huge survey of the galactic plane of the Milky Way containing a staggering 3.32 billion celestial objects — arguably the largest such catalogue so far.

In quantum computers and other experimental quantum systems, information spreads around the devices and quickly becomes scrambled like dice in a game of Boggle. This scrambling process happens as the basic units of the system, called qubits (like computer bit…

Our podcast on science and technology. This week, we examine the firms racing to land on the Moon and why the commercialisation of lunar resources raises thorny questions

Opportunity for educators and high school juniors and seniors with a passion for learning and space biology can apply for NASA GeneLab for High Schools virtual training program.

The atmospheres of small exoplanets likely derive from a combination of geochemical outgassing and primordial gases left over from formation.

NASA’s Lucy spacecraft will add another asteroid encounter to its 4-billion-mile journey. On Nov. 1, 2023, Lucy will get a close-up view of a small main-belt asteroid to conduct an engineering test of the spacecraft’s innovative asteroid-tracking navigation s…

Caecilians aren't exactly your run-of-the-mill amphibian.

The average temperature at Jezero Crater is a chilly minus 67 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 55 degrees Celsius).

Komatiites represent the oldest known terrestrial rocks, and their composition has been cataloged as the closest to that of the first terrestrial crust after the cooling of the magma ocean. These rocks could have been present in multiple environments on the e…

The article shows the compatibility of the concept of thermodynamic inversion (TI) of the origin of life with the theory of stress in (micro)biology.

We report a comprehensive study of the cyanopolyyne chemistry in the prototypical prestellar core L1544.

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For astronomy enthusiasts, February 1 is marked in red on their calendars. The reason: it is not every day that there is a chance to see a green comet. In fact, it is the first t

NASA says the Webb Space Telescope’s Near Infrared Imager and Slitless Spectrograph is currently unavailable for science operations following a...

A transporter which some bacteria use to recycle fragments of their cell wall has been discovered by researchers at Umeå university, Sweden. They found that the transporter controls resistance to certain kinds of cell-wall targeting antibiotics.

Mitochondria are responsible for the energy supply of the organism and fulfill functions in metabolic and signaling processes. Researchers at the University Hospital Bonn (UKB) and the University of Freiburg have gained systematic insight into the organizatio…

A conversation with social entrepreneur Miguel Luengo about artificial intelligence’s current inability to forget and what this means for the right to privacy and user agency.

Dive into the latest discoveries about Jupiter’s moons, Ganymede, Europa, and Io, with Scott Bolton, the principal investigator for NASA’s Juno mission.

A systematic analysis reveals how the proteins in the energy-producing organelles of yeast cells organize into complexes and assemblies.