Scientists say an asteroid known as the “God of Chaos” has a slightly increased chance of impacting the Earth in 2029, but ...

Asteroid Apophis doesn’t currently pose a threat to Earth when it passes by in a few years, but an astrophysicist has ...

Book 16 of the Iliad tells us that Achilles had a third horse, Pedasos (maybe "Jumper", maybe "Captive"), which was yoked as a trace horse, along with Xanthus and Balios. Achilles had captured Pedasos ...

Building on that knowledge, Vasse and colleagues conducted several laboratory experiments to test how temperature might influence the predator-prey relationship between the bacterial species ...

We are studying the role of cell-cell signaling in the control of developmental gene expression by the bacterium Myxococcus xanthus. M. xanthus is unusual among microbes in that hundreds of thousands ...

To address this topic our laboratory studies the genetically tractable organism called Myxococcus xanthus. As a group, myxobacteria are highly social microbes that move, hunt and develop as coherent ...

In 2026, Apophis is set to have a near-encounter with another asteroid, with the much less memorable name of 4544 Xanthus. The asteroids will be less than 6,200 miles apart, which is pretty close ...