NASA heading back to Mars
NASA's big move to search for life on Mars – and to bring rocks home
Briony Horgan, Purdue University and Melissa Rice, Western Washington University
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Sanjay Mishra, Vanderbilt University
Biotech company Moderna, one of many organizations developing a vaccine...
Studying the affects of microgravity on human cell growth.
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Alysson R. Muotri, University of California San Diego
Gravity can be a real downer when you are...
Touching asteroid Ryugu
Touching the asteroid Ryugu revealed secrets of its surface and changing orbit
Paul K. Byrne, North Carolina State University
On Feb. 21, 2019, we shot an...
Microalgae – the next super food?
More protein and good for the planet: 9 reasons we should be eating microalgae
Martina Doblin, University of Technology Sydney; Donna Sutherland, University of Technology...
Compost programs turn garbage into ‘black gold’
City compost programs turn garbage into 'black gold' that boosts food security and social justice
Kristen DeAngelis, University of Massachusetts Amherst; Gwynne Mhuireach, University of...
Offshore drilling is still unsafe
A decade after the Deepwater Horizon explosion, offshore drilling is still unsafe
Donald Boesch, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science
Ten years ago, on April...
Super computers and the race to defeat a pandemic
Scientists tap the world's most powerful computers in the race to understand and stop the coronavirus
Jeremy Smith, University of Tennessee
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Using Genetic Decoding to Trace Covids Spread
The coronavirus genome is like a shipping label that lets epidemiologists track where it's been
Bert Ely, University of South Carolina and Taylor Carter, University...
Building a mirror for one of the world’s biggest telescopes
Buddy Martin, University of Arizona and Dae Wook Kim, University of Arizona
When astronomers point their telescopes up at the sky to see distant supernovae...
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