Category: 7. Science

Nasa’s Artemis II astronauts have described the powerful emotion felt when soaring over the moon as they photographed impact craters, cracks and ridges and began their long journey home.

Among the eagerly awaited images captured by the crew, who…

A cancer drug target already being investigated in clinical trials turns out to be doing something even more consequential than researchers realized. Scientists at Scripps Research have discovered that the enzyme Pol theta (Polθ)…

There are a lot of good ideas floating around about the conditions necessary for life to develop, said Peter Girguis, professor of organismic and evolutionary biology in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and co-director of the Harvard Microbial…

Artificial intelligence policy is emerging as a powerful tool for green economic transformation, according to new research, which examines how targeted government interventions are reshaping urban sustainability outcomes across China.

The…

A massive ocean current circles Antarctica like a giant invisible river, shaping Earth’s climate in powerful ways. This current, called the Antarctic Circumpolar Current, controls how heat moves across the planet.

Scientists now understand that…

The crew of Artemis II named a newly discovered moon crater after a colleague’s late wife on Monday, pausing their historic mission for a moment of grief and remembrance while 252,756 miles from Earth. In a video shared to the lunar mission’s…

The Artemis II mission is on its way to the moon, and so far, the historic journey has been a display of brilliant engineering. The rocket launched without a hitch, the experiments are going as planned, and we’re getting some…

A team at the Center for Research in Biological Chemistry and Molecular Materials (CiQUS) at the University of Santiago de Compostela has developed a more flexible chemical strategy to create biomimetic structures—artificial…

More than half a century after humanity last ventured beyond low Earth orbit, NASA’s Artemis II mission marks a long-awaited return to deep space – and it has now reached its midway point.