Ask Anca Selariu what it was like living on Mars for a year, and there is no hesitation in her answer: “absolutely exhilarating”.The US navy microbiologist is one of four Nasa crew members who returned to Earth earlier this month after…
Scientists at the Northwestern Medicine and Brigham and Women’s Hospital discovered the cause of lupus and a possible cure for it, according to a study published on Wednesday. “We’ve identified a fundamental imbalance in the immune…
Researchers investigated three mysterious objects in the early universe. Shown here are their color images, composited from three NIRCam filter bands onboard the James Webb Space Telescope. They are remarkably compact at red wavelengths…
CAMPBELL LAKE, Fla. — Emily Elliott was searching the water for something precious.Elliott, a University of Alabama scientist who studies ancient hurricanes, came to this lake on the Gulf Coast for sediment that can unlock the secrets of…
Engineers in Japan are trying to get robots to imitate that particularly human expression — the smile.They have created a face mask from human skin cells and attached it to robots with a novel technique that conceals the binding and is…
Researchers at the University of Cambridge have discovered that regulatory T cells form a single, mobile population that patrols the entire body to repair tissue damage. This new understanding could revolutionize the treatment of various…
Image caption, Scientist Anatoly Maslov, 77, was sentenced in May to 14 years in a penal colonyArticle informationAuthor, Sergei GoryashkoRole, BBC Russian9 June 2024Russian President Vladimir Putin frequently boasts that his country is…