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… [+2957 chars]
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]
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]
Using a previously published and carefully curated 68-gene dataset, the scientists ran a battery of mathematical models to reconstruct the evolution of protein sequencesthe results of which, have bee… [+3959 chars]
Some scientists say that our universe could just be one side of the coin. The other side is something they call the “anti-universe”. It’s basically a hypothetical mirror universe where time moves bac… [+3428 chars]
On March 11, a small, 6-foot-wide asteroid hit Earth off the coast of Norway. <ul><li>Technology from NASA tracked the rocks movements two hours before it hit the planet. </li><li>This technology c… [+2628 chars]
There is a significant hindrance to developing long-haul quantum communication systems: After a few hundred kilometers within an optical fiber, the photons that carry the qubits or ‘quantum bits’ (th… [+2602 chars]
Ancient people would have been greeted with a huge wall of ice (Stock image/Getty) A wall of ice thousands of feet high would have blocked ancient people from entering America via a land bridge fro… [+3244 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]
image: Ting Zhu, professor of mechanical engineering at Georgia Tech, in front of his TEM images of polycrystalline metals and a graphic simulating atomic structureview more Credit: Georgia Tech M… [+7549 chars]
A scientist from the University of Portsmouth devised an experiment that they believe confirms the fifth state of matter, a discovery that would change the field of physics for good, a press release … [+2583 chars]
The brightest comet of 2021 has disintegrated, according to EarthSky. An icy wanderer known as Comet Leonard (C/2021 A1) fell apart during its perihelion, or closest approach to the sun, the report … [+4792 chars]
