Since astronomers began finding exoplanets in the 1990s, they've uncovered a lot of hot Jupiters, and now NASA's most venerable telescope is playing meteorologist. These colossal worlds are gas gia… [+3496 chars]
Clownfish may have been made famous through the popular film Finding Nemo, but probably only a few people realize that these charismatic orange-and-white fish offer huge potential for scientific rese… [+4050 chars]
Shooting the night sky, whether by itself or as part of a landscape, can be a magical thing. The problem is that with such low levels of ambient light, any manmade sources can quickly overwhelm the s… [+1245 chars]
Physicists at the Australian National University have developed the most sensitive method ever for measuring the potential energy of an atom (within a hundredth of a decillionth of a joule -- or 10-3… [+3783 chars]
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A SpaceX rocket ship was due for liftoff on Friday, April 8, carrying four men approved by NASA to become the first all-private astronaut team ever launched to the International Space Station (ISS), … [+4012 chars]
Sensors are a pillar of the Internet of Things, providing the data to control all sorts of objects. Here, precision is essential, and this is where quantum technologies could make a difference. Resea… [+2838 chars]
Last year, a genetic analysis of bone fragments representing our earliest known presence in Europe raised a few questions over the steps modern humans took to conquer every corner of the modern world… [+4724 chars]
Coyotes are well-known for their adaptability and trickster ways. This has helped the wily critters recolonize much of their former habitat and spread into the fringes of human-dominated landscapes w… [+6717 chars]
A team of researchers affiliated with multiple institutions in Japan has produced offspring from in vitroderived germ cells in rats. In their paper published in the journal Science, the group describ… [+2663 chars]
If you want to understand the evolution of planets, it helps to spot them young. The alignment of the James Webb Space Telescope's near-infrared instruments entered its "chilling" stage of the Mid-I… [+3435 chars]
Spiculogenesis or the growth of glass-like structures and biomineralization in early sponge species have led to the realization of highly regular glass architectures in nature. In a new report now pu… [+8702 chars]
