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The results are important because they shed light on how habitable Mars was billions of years ago, and how long any surface water persisted.

A cell's unique shape results from an internal tug-of-war: the cell needs to maintain structural integrity while also dynamically responding to the pushes and pulls of mechanical stress, researchers have discovered.

Actors and directors work together for all kinds of reasons: similar senses of humor, long-standing friendships, money.

RUSTON - Luisa Rebull, associate research scientist with the Spitzer Science Center at the California Institute of Technology will visit Louisiana Tech University, April 28 to discuss her work in infrared astronomy as part of the Wallace Herbert Memorial Astronomy Lecture Series.

The electrochemical reactions inside the porous electrodes of batteries and fuel cells have been described by theorists, but never measured directly.

A California scientist whose discoveries related to cell biology have led to new treatments for blood cancer has been selected to receive one of the richest prizes in medical and scientific research.

Air pollution in China and other Asian countries is having far-reaching impacts on weather patterns across the Northern Hemisphere, a study suggests.

Johannesburg, April 14 : Researchers have suggested that Mars may have been warm and wet once but the time would not have lasted for long.

Adam Jermyn , a junior studying physics at the California Institute of Technology, has been selected by the Barry Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation as a 2014 Goldwater Scholar in Mathematics, Science and Engineering.

Some day we want to see quantum computers running advanced algorithms no modern computer is capable of.

Editor at Biotech Week -- Research findings on Electrolytes are discussed in a new report.

The University recently ranked number one on a list of the best dollar-for-dollar investments in higher education.

Laboratory chamber walls have been stealing vapors, causing researchers to underestimate the formation of secondary organic aerosol in the atmosphere.

Image captured by Curiosity's Navcam camera on Sol 593 of the mission. The flat-topped rock resembles Australia.

NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has reached its next study area and is now scoping out rocks that it will take an up-close look at over the next few weeks.

When NASA's Cassini spacecraft flew over the frozen ice cap of Enceladus, one of Saturn's 60 moons, and encountered water vapor issuing from its south pole, scientists began suspecting the existence of an ocean, according to an article in Science magazine.

On Wednesday, NASA's Curiosity Mars rover drove the last 98 feet feet needed to arrive at a site planned since early 2013 as a destination for studying rock clues about ancient environments that may have been favorable for life.

Evidence that Saturn's moon Enceladus harbors a large underground ocean has been uncovered by NASA's Cassini spacecraft and Deep Space Network, furthering scientific interest in the moon as a potential home to extraterrestrial microbes.

Scientists' hunch that there is liquid water on one of Saturn's moons proved to be right.

Simply by breathing, humans have played a small part in the planet-wide balancing act called the carbon cycle throughout our existence.