Category: 7. Science

Combining data from different telescopes is one of the best ways to get a fuller picture of far-off objects. Because telescopes such as Hubble (visible light), the James Webb Space Telescope (infrared), and the Atacama Large Millimeter…

Astronomers with Hubble have spotted “Cloud‑9”, a ghostly, starless cloud of dark matter and hydrogen, a fossil relic from the dawn of galaxies. Found near the spiral galaxy M94, this rare “RELHIC” is the first confirmed glimpse of…

The James Webb Space Telescope’s view of the infant universe has delivered genuine surprises: bright galaxies, rapid star formation, and evidence of accreting black holes only a few hundred million years after the Big Bang. These findings…

Researchers at VIB and KU Leuven have identified a molecular process that allows motor neurons to maintain protein production, a process that fails in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). The study, published in Nature Neuroscience,…

When tissue is severely damaged, surviving cells can respond in a concentrated burst of biological repair known as compensatory proliferation. Nearly 50 years after this survival strategy was first identified in fly larvae, scientists have…

A collaborative team of researchers from the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, the University of Florida, Gainesville and University of Iowa have developed groundbreaking tools that allow grasses—including major grain crops like…

The teeth of the Atlantic wolffish, a bottom-dwelling predator in the North Atlantic Ocean, are strong enough to crush hard-shelled prey and now new analysis has revealed that their core contains an extremely rare material that helps them…

If all goes to plan, February 2026 will see the launch of NASA’s Artemis II mission, returning humans to the Moon for the first time since the Apollo era.

The astronauts onboard the Artemis II spacecraft won’t be landing and setting foot on the…

When SpaceX CEO Elon Musk chose a remote Texas outpost on the Gulf Coast to develop his company’s ambitious Starship, he put the 400-foot rocket on a collision course with the commercial airline industry.

Each time SpaceX did a test run of…

Whatever I may be thinking of, I am always at the same time more or less aware of myself, of my personal existence. At the same time it is I who am aware; so that the total self of me, being as it were duplex, partly known and partly knower,…