STARGAZERS have not one but TWO celestial displays to look forward to in the coming days. The Lyrids meteor shower and a full pink moon will both grace night skies above the U.S. and U.K. this week.… [+2580 chars]
New research from the Hubble Space Telescope has revealed details behind two super-hot Jupiter planets, one where it rains vapourised rock and another where its atmosphere is being sunburned by its s… [+2244 chars]
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has transformed the field of neuroscience over the past 40 years, enabling scientists to create clear snapshots of living brain structures and even detect functional … [+3477 chars]
After decades worth of research, scientists came to know that the universe emerged after the big bang about 14 billion years ago and has been undergoing rapid expansion ever since. Given that we alre… [+2095 chars]
Scientists have recently begun spying on Europe's most active volcano using an unusual new surveillance device: fiber-optic cables. Researchers revealed how they utilized a technology known as distr… [+3198 chars]
Just as our skin is key to our well-being, the skin covering desert soils is essential to life in dry places. This biocrust, made up of fungi, lichens, mosses, blue-green algae, and other microbes, r… [+4657 chars]
With their razor-sharp teeth and agility in the water, sharks are without a doubt one of the most terrifying predators to roam the planet. Now, a new study has shed light on their feeding habits - a… [+4117 chars]
A FORMER Nasa chief has explained one way that humanity could make the conditions on Mars tolerable to future colonists. Speaking to The New York Times, Jim Green described how the Red Planet could … [+4192 chars]
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has transformed the field of neuroscience over the past 40 years, enabling scientists to create clear snapshots of living brain structures and even detect functional … [+3477 chars]
New York: Ice on the surface of the Moon, known so far to be dry and airless, is likely protected by ancient magnetic fields, according to a new study. Sunlight does not reach the polar craters on t… [+2299 chars]
image: This composite shows thermal images of Neptune taken between 2006 and 2020. The first three images (2006, 2009, 2018) were taken with the VISIR instrument on ESOs Very Large Telescope while th… [+8790 chars]
Quantum computers, machines that leverage quantum states to perform computations and store data, could soon revolutionize the computing industry, achieving significantly greater speeds and performanc… [+6501 chars]