Category: 9. Sci-Tech

Membrane proteins are crucial for numerous biological processes and serve as important drug targets. For decades, scientists have relied on detergents to extract membrane proteins from cell membranes for structural studies. While…

Usually when an alchemist shows up promising to turn rocks into gold, you should run the other way. Sure, rocket fuel isn’t gold, but on the moon it’s worth more than its weight in the yellow stuff. So there would be reason to be…

Fleet Space Technologies, Australia’s leading space exploration company, has signed a memorandum of understanding with ExLabs to send its off‑world exploration systems to survey asteroid Apophis as part of ExLabs’ ApophisExL…

In 2019, LIGO and Virgo recorded something truly bizarre – a gravitational wave event less than a tenth of a second in duration.

Compared to the drawn-out chirps of black hole binaries on decaying orbital spirals, it was a sharp crack. The…

An exciting new study reveals the hidden genetic architecture of quantitative ability, showing how brain wiring and signaling shape math skills independently of general intelligence.

Study: A genetic common factor underlying…

A team of paleontologists from Portugal, Italy, the United States and Belgium has added another species of herbivorous dinosaur to the prehistoric catalog: Cariocecus bocagei.

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NASA has named its new group of astronaut candidates, including the first person to have orbited Earth before joining the agency’s corps.

The space agency on Monday introduced the four men…