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New research from the University of St Andrews has discovered a crucial piece in the puzzle of how all animals with a spine - including all mammals, fish, reptiles and amphibians - evolved. In a paper ...

The STS-51L mission clears the tower at Launch Complex 39B at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Jan. 28, 1986. Credit: NASA / Courtesy Sign up for the Concord Monitor’s morning newsletter for ...

Why it matters: A controlled infection experiment aboard the International Space Station shows that in space, even microscopic life is governed by different physical rules. Understanding how microbes ...

With most of humanity's space exploration efforts focused on going to the Moon and establishing a base there, one can't really claim we're yet in a race to colonize Mars. But we will soon be, and ...

HOUSTON—NASA’s SPHEREx observatory completed the first of four planned all-sky surveys in 102 infrared wavelengths as 2025 neared its end to help answer some key astrophysical questions about the ...

Space, the final frontier. That may very well be the case for the crew of the SS Enterprise, but not for Tom Cruise, director Doug Liman, Universal Pictures, and Hollywood in the most general terms.

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Our brain’s evolution makes it nearly impossible to commit to a multi-generational mission like interstellar travel, says one evolutionary ...

The Washington Pavilion of Arts & Science will unveil Space Explorers: Mission Infinity, a fully reimagined, state-of-the-art space and technology floor, on Saturday, November 15. This newly renovated ...

For a long time, evolutionary biologists have thought that the genetic mutations that drive the evolution of genes and proteins are largely neutral: they're neither good nor bad, but just ordinary ...

The cornerstone of the deal is Ixo-vec, an intravitreal gene therapy currently in Phase III development for wet age-related macular degeneration. Eli Lilly made another foray into genetic medicine in ...