A tiny problem Scientists can grow nanocrystals out of many different materials: metals, semiconductors, and magnets will each yield different properties. But the trouble was that whenever they trie… [+3333 chars]
Newswise — Irvine, Calif., March 24, 2022 — The Arctic is warming along with the rest of the planet, and as this is happening, its permafrost – perennially frozen arctic soil that holds a lot of trap… [+5244 chars]
Everything smaller gets consumed and turned into these lovely coprolites, he said. Everything larger gets something taken out of it, but it was able to get away from the attack. The attacker, he sur… [+1525 chars]
Hubble has photographed a massive spiral galaxy that lies about 60 million light-years from Earth. Despite its size, it’s far from the largest celestial object known to astronomers. The photo was c… [+2376 chars]
Skip to content NASA has shared a new image from Ingenuity, the first helicopter on Mars, and announced plans to extend the aircrafts mission so that it can help the Perseverance rover explore treac… [+2962 chars]
During a recent deep-sea dive, the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) captured stunning footage of a strawberry squid using its brand-new 4K camera. While piloting its remote-operated… [+2710 chars]
A team of scientists has created a powerful new method for generating protein drugs. Using computers, they designed molecules that can target important proteins in the body, such as the insulin recep… [+2990 chars]
Amongst the high mountain meadows and grasslands of the Ethiopian plateau stands one primate, the gelada-the “bleeding heart” monkey named for its brilliant red chest. Geladas are the last of their k… [+12202 chars]
Astronomers have detected a cloud of dust the size of a whole star, 330 light-years away. Its cause? A colossal smash-up between two exoplanets that were still just forming. We know this because ast… [+5150 chars]
Stem rust is one of the deadliest crop diseases. It is caused by a fungus (Puccinia graminis f. sp. tritici) and has severely affected cereal farming throughout its entire history. A new study publis… [+2284 chars]
Researchers from the Babraham Institute's Epigenetics research programme have been able to learn more about naïve stem cell reprogramming following a genome wide functional screen. Their research, pu… [+4390 chars]
University of Sydney scientists have used the geological record of the deep sea to discover that past global warming has sped up deep ocean circulation. This is one of the missing links for predictin… [+4122 chars]
