Chop Up a Worm. It Will Regenerate. Scientists Figured Out ...
Researchers identified the master control gene that enables worms to grow a new body, capturing the imagination of […]
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Osiris-Rex Finds Plumes on Asteroid Bennu by JONATHAN CORUM
NASA’s Osiris-Rex spacecraft is studying asteroid Bennu and will attempt to return a sample to Earth. Published: March […]
Equinox on Planet Earth
Welcome to an equinox on planet Earth. Today is the first day of spring in our fair planet’s […]
Tales of 2 Rugged Asteroids and 1 Is Ejecting Material ...
NASA’s Osiris-Rex and Japan’s Hayabusa2 spacecraft reached the space rocks they are surveying last year, and scientists from […]
Neptune’s Moon Triton Is Destination of Proposed NASA Mission by ...
Scientists at a conference in Houston presented the concept for a flyby mission to study a mysterious moon […]
Moving Dung Is a Dirty Job. These Beetles Live for ...
Deployed on farms, industrious dung beetles clean up livestock waste, improve soil and reduce harmful bacteria. Published: March […]
Karen Uhlenbeck Is First Woman to Receive Abel Prize in ...
Dr. Uhlenbeck helped pioneer geometric analysis, developing techniques now commonly used by many mathematicians. Published: March 19, 2019 […]
How Ultima Thule Is Like a Sticky, Pull-Apart Pastry by ...
Scientists from the New Horizons mission presented their latest findings about the small distant object visited by the […]
Honey as a Pollution Detector? It’s a Sweet Idea by ...
Beehives and their contents are a sensitive detector of lead emissions, a study of Canadian urban apiaries showed. […]
Space Is Very Big. Some of Its New Explorers Will ...
The success of NASA’s MarCO mission means that so-called cubesats likely will travel to distant reaches of our […]