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The unexpected discovery of penicillin by Alexander Fleming in 1928, when mold affected one of his Petri dishes, shaped modern medicine, with antibiotics being crucial in fighting many diseases over the past century. Scientists have woken up Fleming's ...

Scientists from the United States and China, as part of observing space, were able to detect a twin of Saturn within the neighboring galaxy. The find is located at a distance of 23 million light years from Earth. Astronomers have discovered a twin of Saturn in a ...

Computer simulations are showing astrophysicists how massive clumps of gas within galaxies scatter some stars from their orbits, eventually creating the smooth, exponential fade in the brightness of many galaxy disks. Researchers from Iowa State University ...

From CBS Denver: By Andrea Flores. September 24, 2020. Subscribe. BOULDER, Colo. (CBS4)– University of Colorado Boulder Senior Matthew Parone is stuck in student housing with nowhere else to go. This after the university banned all ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla — Future moon explorers will be bombarded with two to three times more radiation than astronauts aboard the International Space Station, a health hazard that will require thick-walled shelters for protection, scientists reported Friday.

Tribune News Service. Amritsar, September 25. She is just 16 and is looking forward to flying to the John F Kennedy Space Centre in the US, after getting an invitation from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). Meet Amritsar's Hissaa, a ...

Atacama Desert (Chile), September 25. On the open expanses of Chile's high-altitude Atacama desert, bright stars pierce an ink-black firmament, a lure for stargazers looking for wonder and astronomers seeking signs of life on distant planets. Chile's arid ...

BREVARD COUNTY, FLORIDA – NASA released Friday the results of its first-ever agency-wide economic impact report. The report shows that, through all NASA activities, the agency generated more than $64.3 billion in total economic output during the fiscal ...

You'll be able to identify both Jupiter and Saturn in the sky tonight, according to expert astronomers. The planets - the largest two in our solar system - are expected to be visible from Earth this evening. They've been close to one another throughout the month ...

NASA has recently announced that it will finally be selecting none other than SpaceX to carry out their upcoming mission! On the NASA official website, they have officially noted that they have already selected the Space Exploration Technologies or SpaceX ...

Go outside after dark this month and you will see a bright “star” in the night sky. What is it? The North Star? Absolutely not—the North Star (also called Polaris) is actually the 48th brightest star in the sky. The Dog Star? No, that's Sirius, which isn't easily visible ...

NASA announced Friday that it has awarded SpaceX a $109.4 million contract to launch its Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP), along with four secondary payloads, on a mission to investigate the magnetic barrier surrounding our solar system ...

Looking for a weekend activity with built-in social distancing? Take a look up at the moon. It will look different this weekend. And Saturday is International Observe the Moon Night. Advertisement. "International Observe the Moon Night is a day each year that ...

HONOLULU, Hawaii (HawaiiNewsNow) - Maps of constellations and other celestial objects are nothing new. But a group of University of Hawaii astronomers is working to create a 3D map of the stars in the outer regions of the Milky Way that they are hoping ...

By Mark Wolfe · Facebook · Twitter Pinterest Email · SMS. As the growing season comes to an end, it's time to protect the garden bed from compaction and erosion. These tips will help you preserve and improve the soil.

The new coronavirus restrictions have been met with mixed reviews.

Early human interbreeding with our “cousins” the Denisovans and Neanderthals is an established fact but newly sequenced Neanderthal Y-chromosomes tell scientists that modern humans are the product of a complex history of interspecies sex.

Three times as many children under nine were tested in early September as in the previous two weeks.

Two COMET bus drivers have tested positive for COVID-19, the Central Midlands Regional Transit Authority said Friday, a little less than two weeks after a third driver was confirmed to have the novel coronavirus. The transit authority said the drivers have ...

United Launch Alliance has set September 27, 2020 as the target date for the third launch attempt of the NROL-44 payload aboard their Delta IV Heavy Rocket, due to launch at 12:10 a.m. EDT. The launch window will last for approximately 90 minutes.