A POSTECH research team led by Professor Gil-Ho Lee and Gil Young Cho (Department of Physics) has developed a platform that can control the properties of solid materials with light and measure them. … [+2867 chars]
To administer this COVID test, Todd Kautz had to lay on his belly in the snow and worm his upper body into the narrow den of a hibernating black bear. Training a light on its snout, Kautz carefully s… [+10274 chars]
Freezing dwarf planet* Pluto has ice volcanoes unlike anything known in our solar system – and they might still be active. Scientists said on Tuesday that these dome-shaped cryovolcanoes* – numberin… [+5230 chars]
Recent images captured by the European Space Agencys Mars Express orbiter reveal large craters in Utopia, the largest known impact basin in the Solar System. Utopia is about 3,299 km wide roughly t… [+2513 chars]
(MENAFN- The Conversation) Deep in the Earth beneath us lie two blobs the size of continents. One is under Africa, the other under the Pacific Ocean. The blobs have their roots 2,900km below the… [+5346 chars]
The Earth is going to be bombarded by multiple geomagnetic storms in the coming days. On Monday, March 28, the Sun witnessed an intense period of solar activity which produced multiple M and C-class … [+2625 chars]
UCLA scientists have discovered a new source of super-fast, energetic electrons raining down on Earth, a phenomenon that contributes to the colorful aurora borealis but also poses hazards to satellit… [+4951 chars]
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<ul><li>A team led by an Ohio State University professor analyzed over 4,000 mammal species to identify which animals are likely to have a hidden species.</li><li>Some yet-to-be-discovered species ar… [+3765 chars]
Images of Pluto captured by NASAs New Horizons mission have revealed a new surprise: ice volcanoes. The spacecraft performed a flyby of the dwarf planet and its moons in July 2015, and the insights … [+5715 chars]
Saturn sure makes for a grand view in the night sky. After all, it is the only planet in our solar system with easily visible majestic rings. If you have seen Saturn through an everyday telescope, it… [+1391 chars]
Although they are currently the greatest predators on land, its likely that modern-day cats wouldnt have been a match for the newly discovered Diegoaelurus vanvalkenburghae. At around 42 million year… [+6013 chars]
