NASA’s upcoming missions to the Moon are set to be a lot more chilly than the Apollo program, and the agency is working to figure out how to keep its astronauts snug when visiting the permanently…
Summary: Serotonin neurons in the brainstem are not independent, as once thought, but interact to influence decision-making. Researchers found that clusters of serotonin neurons compete and collaborate, shaping when and how serotonin is released…
In the strange and fascinating world of quantum mechanics, particles have long been sorted into just two types: fermions and bosons. These labels help explain how matter forms and how forces work. Fermions, like electrons and quarks, make up the…
NASA’s school-bus-sized telescope won’t quit.
In what’s become a brilliant investment for scientists and taxpayers alike, the Hubble Space Telescope launched into space 35 years ago, and for decades has…
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The fossil is a vertebra from Mosasaurus hoffmanni, one of the largest mosasaurs to ever live. | Credit: James Starnes
A giant “sea dragon”…
A stunning new photograph of the Andromeda Galaxy has unveiled the vast, glowing gases that surround this majestic spiral system. Captured by Miguel Claro, a professional astrophotographer and science communicator, the image highlights both the…
It was just hours after Harvard rejected the Trump administration’s demands that the stop-work order arrived in Don Ingber’s inbox.
Ingber, the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering’s founding director, said the April 14…
This stunning image from the James Webb Space Telescope, brought to you by NASA, ESA, and CSA, showcases the spiral galaxy NGC 2090 in the constellation Columba. Captured using data from Webb’s MIRI and NIRCam instruments, it…