The Gruber Foundation to support a third fellowship

Photo: Ioannis Liodakis, recipient of the third Gruber Foundation fellowship grant in 2020. ...
Study: Laundry lint can cause significant tissue damage within marine mussels

Study: Laundry lint can cause significant tissue damage within marine mussels

Microscopic fibres created during the laundry cycle can cause damage to the gills, liver and DNA of marine species, according to new research. Scientists at...
Jupiter may be the reason Venus isn't habitable today, Says New Study

Jupiter may be the reason Venus isn’t habitable today, Says New Study

Venus might not be a sweltering, waterless hellscape today, if Jupiter hadn't altered its orbit around the sun, according to new UC Riverside research. Jupiter...
Supermassive black hole traps six galaxies in a web that is 300 times bigger than the Milky Way (Photo)

Supermassive black hole traps six galaxies in a web that is 300 times bigger...

With the help of ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), astronomers have found six galaxies lying around a supermassive black hole when the Universe was...
Neanderthal genes may be liability for COVID-19 patients, Researchers Say

Neanderthal genes may be liability for COVID-19 patients, Researchers Say

Researchers say genes that some people have inherited from their Neanderthal ancestors may increase their likelihood of suffering severe forms of COVID-19. Covid-19 affects some...
40 percent of plant species facing risk of extinction, Says New Study

40 percent of plant species facing risk of extinction, Says New Study

A grim new assessment of the world's flora and fungi has found that two-fifths of its species are at risk of extinction as humans...
Researchers Measure Total Amount of Matter in Universe

Researchers Measure Total Amount of Matter in Universe

Atop goal in cosmology is to precisely measure the total amount of matter in the universe, a daunting exercise for even the most mathematically...
Scientists find the first galaxy whose ultraviolet luminosity is comparable to that of a quasar

Scientists find the first galaxy whose ultraviolet luminosity is comparable to that of a...

It was found using observations made with the Gran Telescopio Canarias (GTC), at the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory, (Garafía, La Palma, Canary Islands),...
Young Physicist studies the math of 'paradox-free' time travel

Young Physicist studies the math of ‘paradox-free’ time travel

Physicists at the University of Queensland (UQ) claim to have come up with mathematical modelling that states that it is theoretically possible to go...
Research: First measurements of radiation levels on the moon

Research: First measurements of radiation levels on the moon

In the coming years and decades, various nations want to explore the moon, and plan to send astronauts there again for this purpose. But...

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