A magnetar is an exotic neutron star with an ultra-powerful magnetic field. It is 1,000 times stronger than a normal neutron star. On Oct. 10, 2020, NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory discovered … [+2800 chars]
A new structural discovery has a lot of potential for accessing advanced functional materials for environmental and energy purposes. Although cage-based porous materials, such as metal-organic polyhe… [+4281 chars]
A West Virginia University postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Physics and Astronomy has made a breakthrough in the study of magnetic reconnection, which could prevent space storms from wrea… [+3352 chars]
On March 4, students, faculty and community members packed a classroom in the Clough Undergraduate Learning Commons to welcome astronaut Shane Kimbrough back to Tech after his recent stay at the Inte… [+6468 chars]
A research team from University of Lisbon (Portugal) and Johannes Gutenberg University (Germany) has developed for the first time an advanced numerical model of one of the main processes behind the m… [+3790 chars]
Scientists have identified a new "social supergene" spreading between different species of fire ants and restructuring their societies. Researchers from Queen Mary University of London have been "in… [+2687 chars]
Metal-organic frameworks, a class of materials with porous molecular structures, have a variety of possible applications, such as capturing harmful gases and catalyzing chemical reactions. Made of me… [+5540 chars]
A West Virginia University postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Physics and Astronomy has made a breakthrough in the study of magnetic reconnection, which could prevent space storms from wrea… [+3350 chars]
Anewly described softshell turtle that lived in North Dakota 66.5 million years ago at the end of the Cretaceous Period, just before the end-Cretaceous mass extinction, is one of the earliest known s… [+6719 chars]
(KNSI) A St. Johns University grad on the International Space Station may not have a ride home later this month. Mark Vande Hei, who graduated from SJU in 1989, blasted off from the Cosmodrome in Ka… [+798 chars]
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A team of researchers affiliated with multiple institutions in the U.S. and China and one in Australia has developed a way to use electrons to accelerate molecular … [+2947 chars]
Cavefish have obvious adaptations such as missing eyes and pale colors that demonstrate how they evolved over millennia in a dark, subterranean world.Now researchers at the University of Cincinnati s… [+4300 chars]
