A fresh assessment of a distantly risky asteroid brings good news: it's even less of a threat than astronomers had feared. The chances of an asteroid dubbed 1950 DA crashing into Earth were always t… [+3712 chars]
Scientists have created a magnetically-manipulated slime robot. But why? It turns out there are lots of applications for a controllable substance that can fit into tight spaces. As seen inNew Scienti… [+1730 chars]
NASA isn't done evaluating the career of telescope namesake James Webb, officials said after controversy surrounding the flagship observatory's name has continued since last summer. James Webb was t… [+6375 chars]
A new study on the moon titled "Downward Oxidant Transport Through Europa's Ice Shell by Density-Driven Brine Percolation" has been published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters. Europa is o… [+1388 chars]
Semiconducting perovskites that exhibit superfluorescence at room temperature do so due to built-in thermal "shock absorbers" which protect dipoles within the material from thermal interference. A ne… [+3101 chars]
The biggest known ice volcanoes, which spew ice instead of lava, are located on Pluto. Now it turns out size is not the only feature setting apart Pluto's "cryovolcanoes" from all others. In a stud… [+5668 chars]
A fresh assessment of a distantly risky asteroid brings good news: it's even less of a threat than astronomers had feared. The chances of an asteroid dubbed 1950 DA crashing into Earth were always t… [+3712 chars]
Washington [US], April 1 (ANI): According to a recent study, newly discovered deposits of layered ice in craters scattered around Mars' southern hemisphere have provided insights into how the planet'… [+4952 chars]
NASA'S Mars orbiter has captured a stunning scene of the Red Planet but that's not all. Hidden in the photo are two very important objects. Can you work out what you're seeing here? It's a scientif… [+3363 chars]
Published in the journal science under the unassuming title Filling the Gaps, researchers from the Telomere-to-Telomere (T2T) Consortium have reported an advance that may prove instrumental in scient… [+1666 chars]
Researchers have developed a new membrane technology that allows for more efficient removal of carbon dioxide (CO2) from mixed gases, such as emissions from power plants. "To demonstrate the capabil… [+4878 chars]
Semiconducting perovskites that exhibit superfluorescence at room temperature do so due to built-in thermal "shock absorbers" which protect dipoles within the material from thermal interference. A ne… [+3101 chars]