NASA's Mars Ingenuity Helicopter has been busy traversing the red planet, and recently completed its 23rd flight. The autonomous drone managed to fly for a total of 129 seconds, across 358 metres. … [+2108 chars]
Thirty years ago, on the flanks of a volcano in California's Sierra Nevada range, trees began to die en masse, suffocated at their roots by carbon dioxide seeping up from the mountain's depths after … [+5745 chars]
Around 20,000 years ago, the world was so frigid that massive glaciers sucked up enough water to lower sea levels by 400 feet. As the sea pulled back, newly exposed land froze to form permafrost, a m… [+7744 chars]
A pair of researchers from Universit´e Paris-Saclay, CNRS and Univ Rennes, CNRS, IPR, respectively, has used math to help describe the process involved when short strands of fiber are twisted into lo… [+2795 chars]
Skip to content Gaia spotted Webb from 620,000 miles away. NASAs James Webb Space Telescope is turning out to be a photogenic spacecraft. In the three months since its launch, Webb has already sen… [+2908 chars]
Enlarge/ A rendering of the star V Hydrae, or V Hya for short. In its death throes, the star emitted a series of expanding rings that scientists calculated are being formed every few hundred years, p… [+6258 chars]
image: Former BTI postdoc Max Helf developed Metaboseek after seeing his labmates struggle with data analysis software.view more Credit: Biognosys AG As a postdoctoral research associate in the la… [+5525 chars]
The ice cover surrounding Antarctica in the Southern Hemisphere slowly expands between March and October every year. During this period, the entire ice area grows by six times to become bigger than R… [+4372 chars]
Snow-white deep-sea crabs populate the seabed near hydrothermal vents. Oldenburg microbiologist Thorsten Brinkhoff was on the track of the animals with the submersible Alvin. Hydrothermal vents on t… [+4929 chars]
Classical helioseismology, which relies on acoustic waves, has been successfully applied to image the Sun’s interior rotation and structure. However, acoustic waves are insensitive to parameters such… [+1973 chars]
Bacteria, fungi, and yeast are very good at excreting useful substances such as weak acids. One way in which they do this is through passive diffusion of molecules across the cell membrane. At the sa… [+5240 chars]
Astronomers are studying a carbon-rich red giant star, V Hydrae that is shedding its atmosphere in slowly expanding rings, along with an hourglass shaped structure. V Hydrae, abbreviated to V Hya, is… [+3074 chars]
