China’s Mars Rover Zhurong Beams Back a Selfie
Solar panel “wings” spread out and two camera “eyes” pointing ahead, China’s Mars rover Zhurong struck a birdlike pose as…
New Research Reveals the Effects of COVID-19 on Human Kidney Cells
The virus that causes COVID-19 can infect and replicate in human kidney cells, but this does not typically lead to…
Astronomers Discover Jets from Massive Protostars Might be Very Different from Lower-Mass Systems
Artist’s conception of the young star Cep A HW2, showing a wide-angle wind originating close to the star and a…
Self-Sustaining, Intelligent, Electronic Microsystems Created – Operate Much Like Self-Autonomous Living Organisms
This illustration captures the essence of the newly developed electronic microsystem. Credit: UMass Amherst A research team from the University…
NASA Just Visited the Solar System’s Biggest Moon
Time for your close-up, Ganymede. On Monday, the NASA spacecraft Juno passed within 645 miles of Ganymede, the largest of…
Hubble Telescope Discovers a ‘Lopsided’ Spiral Galaxy: See Photo
Nasa’s 31-year-old Hubble Space Telescope has made another incredible discovery — it has found a “lopsided” spiral galaxy that has…
New NASA Missions Will Study Venus, a World Overlooked for Decades
NASA is finally going back to Venus, for the first time in more than three decades. And a second time…
This Dam Acts Like a Water Cannon. Let’s Do Some Physics!
When people build dams—giant walls that hold back entire lakes and rivers—they have to build an overflow channel called a…
Scientists Cure COVID in Hamsters With Inhaled Nanobodies: Study
Researchers from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine in Pennsylvania, US, said in a recent paper that they have…
Gene-Based Therapy Helps Blind Man Regain Partial Vision
In a first and what is truly a breakthrough in medicine, a team of doctors has succeeded in partially restoring…