It’s 5 a.m. April 17, 1966, when two Portage County, Ohio, sheriff deputies stop to investigate an abandoned vehicle along a road near Ravenna.
With scarce nutrients and weak gravity, growing potatoes on the Moon or on other planets seems unimaginable. But the plant hormone strigolactone could make it possible, plant biologists have shown. The hormone supports the symbiosis between fungi and plant roots, thus encouraging plants’ growth — even under the challenging conditions found in space.
A new type of camera more clearly maps objects as the vehicle travels
Astronomers are calling Comet 46P/Wirtanen the “comet of the year.”
Astronomers using ESO’s Very Large Telescope uncover a cosmic titan lurking in the early Universe
Disclosure is not something anyone can just ask for
Renewed US interest could produce some fascinating hearings, but the focus should be on the quality not just the quantity of reported sightings
On Oct. 8-9, Europeans outdoors around midnight were amazed when a flurry of faint meteors filled the sky.
They both orbit the sun, but they’re very different.
Consumer genetics poised to enable comparison of DNA evidence to genetic profiles of almost any American of European descent.
