Month: December 2011

No team of reindeer, but radio signals flying clear across the solar system from NASA’s…

Just in time for the holidays, astronomers have come across a new image from NASA’s…

Microscopic spheres form strings in surprising alignments when suspended in a viscous fluid and sheared…

One of our genes is apolipoprotein E, which often appears with a variation which nobody…

Every year for Christmas, the North American Air Defense Command NORAD posts an animation on…

Sildenafil, the active ingredient in Viagra, can alleviate heart problems, and now researchers can explain…

An Australian zoologist has documented a remarkably sharp boundary between two species of millipede in…

A protein’s function depends on both the chains of molecules it is made of and…

Optical techniques enable us to examine single molecules, but do we really understand what we…

Scientists are developing biosensors capable of detecting the presence of tumor markers of lung cancer…