Month: February 2012

Shark skin has long been known to improve the fish’s swimming performance by reducing drag,…

Horseflies are unpleasant insects that deliver powerful bites and now it seems that zebras evolved…

Scientists have discovered the molecular mechanism of a G protein family. G proteins play a…

The 355-foot-tall mobile launcher, or ML, behaved as expected during its move to Launch Pad…

Beauty is more than skin deep, at least for fruit flies studied in new research…

On February 5, 2002, NASA launched what was then called the High Energy Solar Spectroscopic…

The camera at the end of the robotic arm on NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity has…

NASA’s Galaxy Evolution Explorer, or Galex, was placed in standby mode Feb. 7, 2012 as…

In the first comprehensive satellite study of its kind, researchers have used NASA data to…

The High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter recorded a…