Category: 7. Science

Introduction

The 2-C-methyl-D-erythritol 4-phosphate (MEP) (Figure 1) pathway is a metabolic route that converts glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate (G3P) and pyruvate into the universal isoprenoid precursors isopentenyl diphosphate (IDP) and…

WASHINGTON — Max Space, a startup developing expandable module technologies, plans to build a commercial space station that could launch on a single Falcon 9 rocket.

The company unveiled plans Dec. 17 for Thunderbird Station, a space…

Suspended above the Mediterranean Sea, Russia’s Soyuz MS-28 spacecraft made its final approach to the International Space Station (ISS) on Nov. 27, 2025, the same day it launched from Earth. Not only did Soyuz MS-28 carry three new crew members…

An innovative three-color method for capturing images of mRNA inside live mammalian cells has been developed by UMass Amherst chemists. Because RNA is both incredibly important to human life and health and poorly understood, the…

It’s now become easier to forecast the next eruption of Alaska’s Bogoslof volcano.

New research led by Pavel Izbekov, a volcanologist at the Alaska Volcano Observatory, is applying the foundations of diffusion chronometry—the…

Source: AGU Advances

Earth system models offer insight into how climate change will affect communities. But residents of those communities are rarely consulted on the design and deployment of these models, which can lead to the models…

Sequencing data characterisation

A total of 1,695,573 ITS1 amplicon sequence reads were obtained from 27 samples, with an average of 62,799 reads per sample. After quality control using the EasyAmplicon pipeline, an average of 61,425 clean reads…

The Lyrids’ radiant, the constellation Hercules, rises well before midnight, so meteors are visible all night, but are most likely to be seen just before dawn, when the radiant reaches its highest point in the sky.

The Eta Aquariids (May)

The Eta…