Chris Harrison from Department of Marine Geosciences, Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, University of Miami in a paper in Earth, Planets and Space has sought to resolve the question of the number plates that make up the surface of the earth. The number of tectonic plates on Earth described »
Saturn’s moons Tethys (in the foreground) & Janus (small irregular moon in the background) – Courtesy Cassini spacecraft – nasa.govThe view was obtained at a distance of approximately 593,000 miles (955,000 kilometres) from Janus. Image scale at Janus is 3.7 miles (6 kilometres) per pixel. Tethys was at a distance »
Shenshen Lai and colleagues from the University of British Columbia report results from a study of protein kinases in eukaryotes (A eukaryote is any organism whose cells contain a nucleus and other organelles enclosed within membranes. Protein kinases play a pivotal role in communicating intracellular signals in eukaryotes. The family of eukaryotic »
