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A change to a single gene in the bacterium Yersinia pestis has enabled one of the world’s most notorious pathogens to survive ...
Trees get most of the love, but diatoms, a group of photosynthetic microalgae, produce 20% of Earth's oxygen and are the ...
However, the USTC researchers have revealed that dark matter halos hosting dwarf galaxies also exhibit halo bias, which is ...
Located 15,000 light-years away in a region of the Milky Way brimming with stars, gas and dust, this object could be a highly ...
I've been feeling a bit "grandma-ish" lately. Not the "climb Mount Everest" or "babysit six grandkids aged five months to 14" ...
Technology evolves in predictable life cycle stages, from early experimentation to mass adoption and, eventually, decline. Companies that successfully navigate this cycle know when to scale ...
A re-release of the already disastrous live-action remake has made a pitiful $252 per screen. Who thought this was a good idea?
However, excitement about the nova has grown since astronomers observed the star suddenly dim, per NASA, much as it did right before its previous nova. Why does the star T Coronae ...
Professor Brian Cox explains what black holes are, and how we know about them despite the fact that they’re invisible. Suitable for teaching Physics at KS3, GCSE/KS4 and National 4/5 and Higher.
On March 11 the STScI announced the latest batch of programs it had chosen for JWST’s next year of observations, Cycle ... end-of-life phase when a sunlike star becomes a white dwarf, but ...
Our sun is too small to go supernova, but a star like our sun, once it becomes a white dwarf, could go supernova ... we can actually hear them,” Villar says. The Life Cycle of Stars If the supernova, ...