Materials scientists may soon be able to control material properties with light. A team consisting of researchers at Kyoto University and Kurume Institute of Technology have discovered a scaling law… [+2759 chars]
NASA's Psyche spacecraft has completed a gauntlet of electromagnetic, thermal-vacuum, vibration, shock, and acoustic testing at the agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Southern California to … [+1907 chars]
A new study provides the first evidence that rising greenhouse gases have a long-term warming effect on the Amundsen Sea in West Antarctica. Scientists from British Antarctic Survey (BAS) say that wh… [+3210 chars]
In recent years, researchers have begun to explore the vast assemblage of microbes on and within the human body. These include protists, archaea, fungi, viruses and vast numbers of bacteria living in… [+7841 chars]
A highly sensitive, 3D-printed fingertip could help robots become more dexterous and improve the performance of prosthetic hands by giving them an in-built sense of touch. Machines can beat the worl… [+2947 chars]
Time is the apparent progression of events from past to future. While it's impossible to completely define the nature of time, we all share many common experiences bound by time: Causes lead naturall… [+8694 chars]
Washington, Apr 06: An asteroid approximately the the size of a bus will make a close approach to Earth on Thursday night, according to space object trackers. Astronomers only spotted the near-Earth… [+1778 chars]
The European Space Agency (ESA) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) regarding the latters joint lunar mission with India. Under the deal,… [+1875 chars]
On November 8, 2020, NASA's Juno spacecraft flew through an intense beam of electrons traveling from Ganymede, Jupiter's largest moon, to its auroral footprint on the gas giant. Southwest Research In… [+3986 chars]
Using a protein nanoparticle they designed, scientists at the University of Illinois Chicago have identified two distinct subtypes of neutrophils and found that one of the subtypes can be used as a d… [+4428 chars]
The dominant theory for the formation of gas giants is known as core accretion, where the leftover matter from star formation begin to collide and clump up. According to an alternative theory known a… [+2199 chars]
This year, 2022, marks the 100th birthday of Nobel Prize-winning chemist Har Gobind Khorana or so we think. The exact date of his birth is not known, because Khorana was born in poverty in a British … [+6640 chars]
