QUICK FACTS
What it is: The spiral galaxies NGC 2207 and IC 2163
Where it is: 120…

QUICK FACTS
What it is: The spiral galaxies NGC 2207 and IC 2163
Where it is: 120…

After the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in 1986, scientists expected to find a dead zone where almost nothing could survive. Instead, they found life that found ways to adapt and survive. One key example was a common black fungus called Cladosporium…

If you peer at the sky during a cloudless dawn or dusk, you’d immediately spot Venus. Appearing as a brilliant, steadily shining speck, it’s the second-brightest object in the night sky after the moon.
“The planet is about 100 times brighter…

Shimeld, S. M., Degnan, B. & Luke, G. N. Evolutionary genomics of the Fox genes: origin of gene families and the ancestry of gene clusters. Genomics 95, 256–260 (2010).
Yu, J.-K. et al. The…

In-situ sound speed modelling makes underwater navigation smarter and more precise
In-situ sound speed modelling makes underwater navigation smarter and more precise
KNOXVILLE, TN, December 21, 2025 /24-7PressRelease/ –…
Olsson, L., Rugbjerg, P., Torello Pianale, L. & Trivellin, C. Robustness: linking strain design to viable bioprocesses. Trends Biotechnol. 40, 918–931 (2022).
Jiang, T., Li, C., Teng, Y.,…

circa 1998: An artist’s impression of the completed International Space Station. (Photo by NASA/Space Frontiers/Getty Images)
According to a December 19, 2025, episode of Houston We Have a Podcast Season 1, Episode 406, ISS leaders Laura…

In today’s leading model of cosmology, most of the universe is invisible: about 95 percent of the universe is made up of dark matter and dark energy. Scientists still do not know what either one actually is, but their influence is unmistakable….

Astronomers spotted an object that looks like a planet, weighs about as much as Jupiter, and yet behaves like nothing anyone has seen before.
This strange world sits dangerously close to a dead star. Its air is filled with carbon instead of water…

Thwaites, the most studied glacier in the world, commands attention because it is not only the widest in the world at 80 miles but also the shakiest. And its nickname “The Doomsday Glacier” certainly sets it apart from the 500 other…