Shortly before his death in August 2025, A. James Hudspeth and his team in the Laboratory of Sensory Neuroscience at The Rockefeller University achieved a groundbreaking technological advancement: the ability to keep a tiny sliver of the cochlea…
Forget your umbrella, today’s weather forecast comes not from Earth, but from a blazing rogue planet adrift in the cosmos. SIMP-0136, a lonely world without a parent star, has just delivered one of the most electrifying meteorological…
The fruit fly Drosophila genome is like a 180-million letter book. Julia Zeitlinger, a professor at the Stowers Institute for Medical Research, is determined to read and dissect that book to understand how the sentences are built, and…
As Iapetus approaches eastern elongation, several of Saturn’s moons stand in a line on either side of the ringed world overnight tonight.
Several of…
Warning signs like high blood pressure, elevated cholesterol or glucose levels precede almost…
It’s the start of a new phase in the lunar cycle tonight, and for now, that means the moon will be getting brighter each night.
The lunar cycle is a series of eight phases of the moon. NASA explains…
In the deserts of southern Australia, scientists have been captivated by tiny, shimmering glass fragments scattered across the arid terrain. Formed under extreme conditions, these delicate shards have puzzled researchers for decades, as they…
The Atlas blue butterfly, also known as Polyommatus atlantica, has been genetically confirmed as having the highest number of chromosomes out of all multicellular animals in the world.
This insect boasts 229 pairs of chromosomes, while many of…
How will NASA’s upcoming Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO) mission differentiate Earth-sized exoplanets from other exoplanets, specifically Earth-sized exoplanets within the habitable zone, also called exoEarths? This is what a recent…
LOS ANGELES, Sept. 29 (Xinhua) — SpaceX is targeting mid-October for the 11th flight test of its Starship rocket, the company announced on Monday.
The launch is scheduled for as early as Monday, Oct. 13, with a launch window…