Category: 7. Science

An international team of researchers has just revealed the existence of three Earth-sized planets in the binary stellar system TOI-2267 located about 190 light-years away. This discovery, published in Astronomy & Astrophysics, is…

Fight or Flight—and Grow a New Limb

Study reveals how salamanders rely on sympathetic nervous system to regenerate body parts

By Kermit Pattison / Harvard Staff Writer

Biologists have long been fascinated by the ability of salamanders to…

Kentucky-based astrophotographer David Joyce has shared a glorious deep space vista revealing the fossil light of a vast supernova remnant created in the death throes of an enormous star some 10,000 years ago.

Joyce’s nebula scene captures the…

Peatlands look quiet, but they hold one of Earth’s biggest secrets. These soggy landscapes cover only three percent of the planet’s land yet store over 30 percent of all soil carbon. They’ve kept that carbon locked away for thousands of…

Through the study of AtMSBP1, the researchers found that this plant scaffold protein helps yeast cells better coordinate activity and communication between different cellular compartments — not just the endoplasmic reticulum, but…

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