Category: 7. Science

After a finite number of divisions, cells simply give up. As each round of replication trims their telomeres—the protective caps at the chromosome ends—those caps eventually become too short to prevent chromosome ends from being recognized as…

Using NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), astronomers have listened to the cosmic song a red giant star croons to its black hole companion. The song, related to the starquake studied by TESS, revealed the turbulent history of…

Life often finds surprising ways to adapt, even in places where survival seems impossible. Inside the abandoned ruins of Chernobyl’s destroyed nuclear reactor, scientists discovered a strange black fungus that not only survives extreme…

Russia’s only working launch pad has been temporarily knocked out of action after sustaining significant damage during the recent launch of three astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS). This leaves the country unable to send humans…

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The sun kicked off December with a bang, unleashing a strong X1.9-class solar flare that briefly knocked out radio communications across Australia and parts of southeast Asia.

The eruption, which peaked at around 9:49 a.m. EST on Nov. 30 (0249…

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The beauty of the DNA code is that organisms interpret it unambiguously. Each three-letter nucleotide sequence, or codon, in a gene codes for a unique amino acid that’s added to a chain of amino acids to make a protein.

But…