Category: 7. Science

The local universe may be expanding more slowly than previously thought, scientists have found. The discovery, made in two separate pieces of research, could relieve one of the most troubling headaches in cosmology, the Hubble tension.

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Even 200 years after asteroid 16 Psyche was discovered, astronomers continue to puzzle over its formation.

Psyche is the 10th-most massive asteroid in the main belt between Mars and Jupiter, and the largest known metallic asteroid, at 140 miles in…

Researchers have found that tiny hydrogel micromachines can compress and relax biological protein networks in controlled ways that mimic the forces produced by living cells.

That capability allows scientists to reproduce one of the most important…

Entomologists in Panama have observed a leaf-masquerading katydid species that begins life bright pink before turning green days later, a shift that may mimic rainforest leaves that flush red or pink before maturing — an adaptive camouflage…

Experts think they have discovered a way for humans to take advantage of whales’ 200-year-old lifespan.

As if we aren’t living long enough, the University of Rochester scientists link whales’ longevity could be the key to treating common…

The Satellite Data Explorer (SDX) from NASA’s Commercial Satellite Data Acquisition (CSDA) program is a web-based data discovery and data access tool that allows approved users to search, discover, access, task, and download commercial Earth…

The Small Magellanic Cloud, or the SMC, is one of the Milky Way’s closest galactic neighbors – a small, gas-rich galaxy visible to the naked eye from the southern hemisphere, bound to our galaxy by gravity, alongside its companion, the Large…

A new analysis of samples collected from asteroid Ryugu has yielded all five canonical nucleobases that make up RNA and DNA.

It’s not the first time all five have been isolated from asteroid material – asteroid Bennu also made the grade. But…