Wildfires across the globe are contributing to conditions that make future fires more likely, new research finds. The study estimates that brown carbon emissions from sources like wildfires are a gre… [+3966 chars]
Thousands of small meteorites are thought to hit Earth's surface each year, but for every impact witnessed almost 800 space rock chunks land in oceans or remote landscapes and go unnoticed.
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Researchers may have solved Professor Stephen Hawking’s famous black hole paradoxa mystery that has puzzled scientists for almost half a century. According to two new stud… [+3521 chars]
In physics, simplicity is beauty. Chinese astronomers, using devices including the world's most sensitive radio telescope, identified a single parameter to describe the mysterious repeating fast radi… [+2149 chars]
Something unusual is happening in the depths of the Arctic ocean: sinkholes are opening up on the seabed, some as large as a city block! This discovery, published in the Proceedings of the National… [+3099 chars]
How do you bring together two molecules that positively repel each other? A Northwestern University-led research team has developed a simple and versatile solution: Introduce an electron with a jolt … [+4346 chars]
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER (FL), March 18, 2022 The Center for the Advancement of Science in Space, Inc. (CASIS), manager of the International Space Station (ISS) National Laboratory, issued a new research… [+3796 chars]
A special fiber could bring our clothing to life. Fink Lab MIT/Elizabeth Meiklejohn RISD/Greg Hren Wearable tech is extending far beyond Apple Watches and FitBits. Reimagining pants, T-shirts and j… [+4475 chars]
Parkinson’s disease is a neurodegenerative disorder characterized by the destruction of a specific population of neurons: the dopaminergic neurons. The degeneration of these neurons prevents the tran… [+3213 chars]
Amid severe tensions between Russia and the West over the Ukraine war, three cosmonauts are due to take off for the International Space Station (ISS).
More than ten years ago, the so-called rare earth crisis highlighted the fragility of the supply chain of these metals, which are crucial for the transition to a carbon-neutral economy. Most of the w… [+5869 chars]
From anxiety to depression, loneliness is known to have a range of unpleasant symptoms in humans. And now a new study has shown that loneliness is just as problematic for elephants, who show more si… [+4885 chars]
