Chinese New Year marks the start of the New Year based on the lunisolar calendar, which falls on the first new moon between 21st January and 20th February. It's a chance to celebrate the move from ... Read more Chinese New Year marks the start of the New Year based on the lunisolar calendar, which falls on the first new moon between 21st January and 20th February. It's a chance to celebrate the move from Winter to Spring and involves family reunions, decorations often with a red theme, gifts, dragon dances and fireworks. The […] The post Science Activity Ideas for Chinese New Year appeared first on Science Experiments for Kids. Show less

A research team of the University Medical Center Mainz has succeeded in observing for the first time how G protein-coupled receptors in living cells actually respond to activating substances. The s... Read more A research team of the University Medical Center Mainz has succeeded in observing for the first time how G protein-coupled receptors in living cells actually respond to activating substances. The scientists discovered that depending on the activating substance bound, one and the same receptor takes on different forms and thus triggers different cell reactions. Show less

Two American astronauts and others from Japan and Russia landed in the Pacific Ocean after an early journey home from the International Space Station because one of them was ill.

Mark Thompson, Universe Today When stars at least thirty times the mass of our Sun reach the end of their lives, astronomers had assumed they simply winked out, collapsing silently into...

Sophie Hardach, BBC In 2020, wildlife photographer Vladimír Čech Jr was trudging through the snow in a military zone in the Doupov Mountains, a remote and rugged area in the Czech...

Becky Ferreira, 404 Media Astronomers think they have solved the puzzle of so-called "little red dots" in space, a population of bizarre objects at the very edge of the observable universe,...

Cairo & Lowette, CERN Courier The Higgs boson is uniquely simple - the only Standard Model particle with no spin. Paradoxically, this allows its behaviour to be uniquely complex, notably due...

David Zaruk, Firebreak Since RFK Jr used his oligopoly in American health policy to rewrite the US Food Pyramid to serve his interest groups, followed by many others groups publishing their...

Ross Pomeroy, RealClearScience Everything around us seems to be changing at breakneak speed. Twenty years ago, smartphones were niche products. Twenty years before that, computers were...

Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering Long before satellites and sonar, entire cities vanished beneath water—some swallowed by earthquakes, others slowly erased by the sea. For centuries,...