A new global analysis of the last 19 million years of seafloor spreading rates found they have been slowing down. Geologists want to know why the seafloor is getting sluggish. New oceanic crust form… [+4268 chars]
Astronomers have discovered a 'slimmer' type of red giant that they believe is having its mass sucked away by a neighbouring star. Experts had predicted the existence of such objects but this is th… [+4965 chars]
A team of researchers with members affiliated with MIT, Carnegie Mellon University, UCLA and Harvard University has found that a woman without a left temporal lobe developed a language network in the… [+2682 chars]
A key instrument on Nasas James Webb Space Telescope that detects infrared light has fallen to its final operating temperature, just a few degrees above absolute zero. The Mid-Infrared Instrument (… [+2927 chars]
Astronomers have discovered a dusty, red object 13 billion light-years from Earth that may be the earliest known ancestor of a supermassive black hole. The ancient object shows characteristics that … [+3850 chars]
Iron-rich chert from the Nuvvuagittuq Supracrustal Belt, Québec, Canada. Likely the red coloration ... [+] was caused by microbial activity. Dominic Papineau New research published in Science Advan… [+2751 chars]
Traveling by snail may not sound like the quickest way to get around, but it's faster than walking ... if you're a tardigrade. Eight-legged, endearingly tubby tardigrades — near-microscopic organ… [+5689 chars]
Chemical syntheses in liquids and gases take place in three-dimensional space. Random collisions between molecules have to result in something new in an extremely short time. But there is another way… [+4990 chars]
China wants to find the first viable alternative to Earth in an upcoming hunt for exoplanets. With hopes of finding Earth 2.0, Chinese scientists are planning to survey planets outside our solar syst… [+2215 chars]
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) of the United States have predicted that a large geomagnetic solar storm will h… [+4061 chars]
On the left, you'll see the dying red giant. On the right, is the corpse-like white dwarf. superbossa.com/MPP Lurking in the outer folds of deep space, some 5,000 light-years from Earth, two stars … [+3967 chars]
Phase transitions, such as the boiling of water or the melting of a metal, are commonplace but fascinating phenomena that spur surprises decades after decades. They often occur as the temperature of … [+2396 chars]
