Tiny flecks of white dot a section of crumbly rocks along Texas's Brazos River. To a casual observer, the grains may seem like unremarkable bits of sand, but within their oddball shapes lie clues to … [+8057 chars]
NASA’s Perseverance rover uses microphones to record sounds on Mars that researchers have used to measure the speed of sound on that planet. Last February, the internet was awash with alien sounds a… [+4745 chars]
A materials scientist with a yeast allergy set out to make a yeast-free pizza dough that still rises like a classic Neapolitan pie. Now, in a new paper published March 22 in the journal Physics of F… [+3841 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]
On March 22, the newest U.S.-European sea level satellite, named Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich, became the official reference satellite for global sea level measurements. This means that sea surface he… [+4636 chars]
image: 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… [+8193 chars]
Researchers who assisted in pioneering the utilization of enzymes to break down plastic have taken a significant next step in engineering nature-based solutions to the plastics crisis worldwide. The… [+3165 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]
