In the public’s mind, Benjamin Franklin’s scientific work has largely been reduced to this one experiment, in which Franklin demonstrated that discharges from thunderstorms are electric in nature (SN: ...
A space company with ties to New Mexico broke through a glass ceiling this week by launching two rockets into space in a 24-hour period from different hemispheres. Rocket Lab is an end-to-end space ...
To build proteins, the cell makes a copy of DNA, called mRNA. Then, another molecule called a ribosome reads the mRNA, translating it into protein. But this step has been a visual mystery: scientists ...