Modern nanotechnology products and methods require advanced nanomanipulation techniques to manufacture and work with nanoscale objects accurately, efficiently, and automatically. A recent study propo… [+6721 chars]
A theorized huge, ninth planet beyond the orbit of Neptune once again wasn't found in a new survey of the solar system's outer reaches. Astronomers scanned a large portion of the sky using the 6-met… [+3318 chars]
Climate scientist Elizabeth Barnes uses neural networks and explainable artificial intelligence to answer pressing questions about Earth's climate. These cutting-edge, machine-learning methods help u… [+1925 chars]
A team of researchers at the University of Liverpool has tested the assumption that hafted tools (those with handles) provided early humans with enough benefit to warrant their construction and use. … [+2716 chars]
Methanotrophic bacteria consume 30 million metric tons of methane per year and have captivated researchers for their natural ability to convert the potent greenhouse gas into usable fuel. Yet we know… [+4401 chars]
It was only last week the sun released a coronal mass ejection (CME) blast towards Earth, causing moderate geomagnetic storms. Now, observatories have honed in on an active sunspot region that has p… [+1504 chars]
In recent years, physicists have discovered materials that are able to switch their electrical character from a metal to an insulator, and even to a superconductor, which is a material in a friction-… [+7285 chars]
A team at HZB has developed a method of experimentally unraveling tautomeric mixtures. Based on resonant inelastic X-ray scattering (RIXS) at BESSY II, not only proportions of the tautomers can be de… [+3265 chars]
On December 25th last the James Webb Space Telescope JWST for short was finally propelled into the heavens on an Ariane 5 rocket from French Guiana. The telescope is the successor to Hubble, which h… [+6518 chars]
File this one under the "bold predictions" section. A new theory says there might be a bizarro universe out there, or an "anti-universe", that has been running backward in time since before the Big … [+3046 chars]
The Hubble Space Telescope captured a jet-like outburst in the Orion Nebula earlier this year. The European Space Agency (ESA) and NASA shared the photo on Hubble’s website this month. The two space … [+2503 chars]
Scientists have long known that learning requires the flow of calcium into and out of brain cells. But researchers at Columbia's Zuckerman Institute have now discovered that floods of calcium origina… [+6820 chars]
