image: The sand dollar Mellitella stokesiiview more Credit: Rich Mooi (CC BY 4.0) New insight on the origins and early evolution of echinoids, a group that includes the sea urchins, the sand dolla… [+6394 chars]
Crystal used for storing photonic qubits and illuminated by a laser in a cryostat, an instrument for obtaining cryogenic temperatures. Credit: Antonio Ortu Computers, smartphones, GPS: quantum physi… [+5885 chars]
Suppose that we could watch twenty generations of whales or sharks adapting to climate change — measuring how they evolve and how their biology changes as temperatures and carbon dioxide levels rise.… [+4050 chars]
Scientists and engineers have been studying the mysteries of the pyramids of Egypt for years now. But one thing still evades them: what is inside the two voids of the Great Pyramid of Giza? Past sca… [+3232 chars]
natural astronomy (2022). DOI: 10.1038 / s41550-022-01639-6″ width=”685″ height=”436″/> credit: natural astronomy (2022). DOI: 10.1038 / s41550-022-01639-6 A team of researchers at the University… [+3138 chars]
Credit: CC0 Public Domain First predicted in Einstein’s theory of general relativity, gravitational waves are tiny ripples in spacetime generated by titanic and powerful cosmic events. The great phy… [+2993 chars]
China is looking to spark interest in space tourism by opening its soon-to-be-completed space station to everyday citizens. Yang Liwei, who made history in 2003 by becoming China's first astronaut i… [+3319 chars]
Researchers developed a natural antibacterial texture for use on food packaging to extend shelf life and minimize waste, inspired by the bacteria-killing wings of insects like cicadas. Multifunction… [+4721 chars]
Asteroid Ryugu could be a remnant of an extinct comet that spent tens of thousands of years racing through the solar system, new data suggests. Scientists believe it was then vaporised by high tempe… [+6783 chars]
A team of physicists recently discovered a new phase of water ice, after they put ordinary ice under extraordinarily high pressure and melted it before letting it refreeze. The previously unknown pha… [+2959 chars]
A combination of machine learning, sophisticated supercomputer simulations and data from large scale surveys of the cosmos have resulted in researchers getting closer to solve a 20 year old conundrum… [+3341 chars]
A combination of machine learning, sophisticated supercomputer simulations and data from large scale surveys of the cosmos have resulted in researchers getting closer to solve a 20 year old conundrum… [+3341 chars]
