Ernesto Di Maio is severely allergic to the yeast in leavened foods. "I have to go somewhere and hide because I will be fully covered with bumps and bubbles on the whole body," he says. "It's really … [+5803 chars]
The Northern Lights are one of the most spectacular sights on Earth, but astronomers are just as interested in the science behind them. Now NASA has revealed plans to fly a rocket straight through … [+7309 chars]
Modeling the impact of meteorological forces on the Red Sea shows that winds in the southern part of the sea modulate sea-level surges across the basin. A study of the relative contributions of surf… [+3321 chars]
After a large number of asteroids flew past the Earth last week, it appears the bombardment is not going to stop any time soon. There are more asteroids hurtling towards Earth, and the latest one amo… [+2219 chars]
China plans to open its new space station up to 'tourism' within the next decade - sparking what the country hopes is a race to compete with the likes of private American space tourists such as Jeff … [+10391 chars]
Washington: NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover is trying to cover more distance in a single month than any rover before, using artificial intelligence. The six-wheeled scientist is on a 5-kilometre jour… [+2590 chars]
The study, in which the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) and the Universidad Estatal Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho (Júlio de Mesquita Filho Paulista State University) (UNESP) of Brazil are … [+4627 chars]
The larva of a Monomorium triviale queen ant looks like an alien doll (Image credit: Idowaga et al., doi: 10.11646/ZOOTAXA.5105.2.5, CC BY 4.0) Every queen needs a crown. For the queen ant Monomoriu… [+3424 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… [+2957 chars]
This finely detailed image shows the heart of NGC 1097, a barred spiral galaxy that lies about 48 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Fornax. This picture reveals the intricacy of the… [+1917 chars]
These six cubes show the simulated distribution of galaxies at redshifts 9, 8, 5, 3, 2, and 1, with the corresponding cosmic ages shown. As the universe expands, the density of galaxies within each c… [+9896 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]
