Month: June 2012

A father’s love contributes as much — and sometimes more — to a child’s development…

A small molecule prevents a cancer-causing message from entering the cell nucleus.

Engineers have designed microscopic mechanical devices that withstand intense radiation and heat, so they can…

The European Southern Observatory is to build the largest optical/infrared telescope in the world. At…

NASA has narrowed the target for its most advanced Mars rover, Curiosity, which will land…

NASA’s NuSTAR mission is scheduled to launch from Kwajalein Atoll in the central Pacific Ocean…

New evidence from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory challenges prevailing ideas about how black holes grow…

Vast stores of carbon in U.S. forest soils could be released by rising global temperatures,…

During a powerful solar blast on March 7, NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope detected the…

New observations confirm a tenuous “bridge” of hydrogen gas streaming between two prominent members of…